Andreas Tille:
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.
My answer was aimed at Marc's:
Its a way to visibly say "I'll do the job until the second someone else shows up".
Rather than inactive maintainers. For inactive maintainers, we have the ITS process, which I believe is working (at least better than what we had before the ITS process).
Best regards, Niels
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