Hi Niels,
Am Sun, Jan 05, 2025 at 12:40:54PM +0100 schrieb Niels Thykier:
> The "I'll do the job until the second someone else shows up" sounds close to
> RFA (Request For Adoption).
>
> Maybe we can do with a variant like OFA (Open For Adoption), which does not
> have the "lingering ownership" that RFA has. For some RFA still has a sense
> of "I can choose who to pass the package on to". The proposal here would be
> that OFA was "If you want to maintain this package, just upload it with a
> new maintainer". In my world, it would be combined with Low NMU Threshold /
> QA upload semantics for drive-by fixes, since the maintainer is supposedly
> not very attached to the package.
I get the difference behind your suggested OFA and RFA. IMHO the main
problem behind both is that only active maintainers will offer this
option by actively file a bug report. I admit I rather have a problem
with inactive maintainers. I have not made some stats (yet) but its
definitely not wrong to state that >90% of the ITS bugs I've filed in
the past remained unanswered. I do not expect that these maintainers
will file [OR]FA bugs.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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