On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 16:30:37 +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > One is to use the mentors mailing list as the maintainer for mentee > > packages. That way the burden of quickly orphaned packages is dispersed > > over the whole set of mentors rather than just one. Perhaps that will > > encourage more DD participation since they won't stick themselves with a > > lot of orphaned packages. > > To clarify: the intended point of this proposal is to solve the perceived > problem that DDs don't sponsor packages because they're concerned that > they'll end up taking responsibility for a package if the maintainer ups and > leaves? > > I don't actually see that as a problem. There are simple ways to deal with > orphaned packages, regardless of the way the upload was made, and they work. > If a package I sponsor is abandoned by the maintainer, it gets NMUed, > orphaned and assigned to debian-qa like any other, and is then available for > adoption.
OK, I've at least seen Paul Wise state this excuse as the reason to avoid sponsoring packages, and I would bet there is a lot more of that sentiment out there, just not expressed here. If you can mitigate that concern via better awareness about the orphaning process, then I think that would be great. Best wishes, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101006112051.8b0748bc.michael.s.gilb...@gmail.com
