On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 10:14:44AM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > I filed a bugreport to fix it. It is the job of the maintainer to > > > implement it;) > > > > Yeah, ok, a quick reality check here. The mol maintainer died tragically in > > july, leaving the package all but abandoned, i did jump in because nobody > > else > > did and because mol was blocking the 2.6.12 kernel transition, and because i > > used to work with Jens on the 2.6 powerpc kernel packages. I don't use mol > > and > > am not interested in being the sole maintainer of it, except to make it > > build > > with newer kernel packages, and did write so when i announced the mol 2.6.12 > > packages here, so read the mailing list archive. > > > > The alternative being naturally to kick mol from the archive, or at least > > the > > mol-modules, so they don't interfer with the kernel packages, as mol seems > > abandoned upstream and there is no real interest in doing real > > maintainership > > of them for debian, altough Otavio proposed himself. > > As did I, on the condition that no one else wanted the job. When you took > over mol, I understood that you would take care of the package in whatever
Mmm, i guess i was not clear enough in that mail i sent, or you didn't read it or whatever. > way you see fit. Frankly, I'm a bit puzzled about this reality check > business now. Well, i was just (over ?)reacting to elimar's claim that it is my responsability to apply patches and stuff, while he could just join the alioth project and do the change himself. > And before you ask: setting up collaborative maintainership for a package > is something I'd do with people I've worked with successfully before. > Otherwise, I'd prefer to take the blame alone. bah. i guess with such thinking you rarely go into collaborative work :) Anyway, debian's future is one of team-maintained packages, and more and more such teams spring forward and are a big progress and handle the packages in a much better way than single maintainership does. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
