On 20-Feb-2001 Matthew Vernon wrote: > Sean 'Shaleh' Perry writes: > > Anyone have comments on the idea that the only packages we should release > are > > ones that have a maintainer, not Debian QA? > > How about asking the QA team? I think that "packages maintained by the > QA team" is a poor criterion for getting software. They shouldn't > delay a release, but if the code is still useful, I don't think we > should throw it out just because it relies on debian-qa for TLC. > > As a QA member, I'd feel a bit miffed. We exist at least partly to > ensure that code no-one is maintaining is kept to a high > standard. Maybe the QA team should be allowed to decide to prune things? >
I am definately *NOT* saying that it should go away immediately. More, we should prune long QA packages. Maybe 6 months, may be longer. Some kind of mechanism for this would be nice. Of course, QA should have a say, I did not mean to take away any of your and others work.
