On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 00:05:20 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > The way that the previous maintainer would declare that he doesn't > want to maintain would be a RFA (Request For Adoption). > The way you would adopt it would be to do an ITA (Intention To Package) > by renaming his RFA and take-over the ownership of the RFA bug number. > > Everybody does it, why should you be an exception?
I don't agree here; I've seen and been involved in quite a few maintainer handovers that worked perfectly without involving the BTS. Of course if the new maintainer needs a sponsor, the sponsor will want to see some proof of the old maintainer's admission. But if -- like it might be in this case -- the old maintainer is the sponsor or the new maintainer uploads himself or herself there's no problem whatsoever IMO. > >> Well the maintainer has agreed (on private mail) to give it to me, and > >> I'm planning to ask him to sponsor it so my understanding was that we > >> could avoid the bureaucracy... > > FWIW: I agree with this point of view. > Exactly since when, a private email is an official document for a change > of maintainership in Debian? What are RFA, O, and ITA for then? RFA and O bugs are for situations when the old maintainer wants to stop the task and there isn't yet a new maintainer. > We need to keep things with > a public record, otherwise we are risking take-overs. Doesn't seem to be a recurrent problem ... Just out of curiosity: > I am very familiar with Git, it's just that normally, we use upstream-sid / > debian-sid, I'm rather unfamiliar with git but sometimes I stumble over packages maintained in git anway; and I haven't seen upstream-sid and debian-sid branches yet. Who/where (team, tool, ...) is this schema used? Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ -- GPG key IDs: 0x8649AA06, 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Rocky Hill & Johnny Winter: Bad Girl Blues
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