On 00-12-17 Chuan-kai Lin wrote: > people have already stopped using it. The real problems are those > whose maintainers were MIA. As they are (supposedly) being taken care > of, nobody worries about them, and as the maintainers were MIA, the > bugs are not being addressed. So what should somebody who would like > to work on QA do?
You can still create bugfixes and patches to improve the quality of the
package and submit them to the BTS, so everyone can seem them. If the
maintainer doesn't react on your mail, you can still contact the QA Team
and tell them about the situation and ask them to try to cotnact the
maintainer or do a NMU if needed.
> Note: I have been trying to reach the package maintainer for tin, who
> disappeared after orphaning fetchmail (but never mentioned tin), and
> the maintainer for sslwrap, who seems to be MIA, in both cases
> unsuccessfully. So I speak from my experience.
Then you have still the possibility to ask the QA Team for help with
this issues and try to contact the maintainer to get a decision from
him. You still have one door left, that you haven't opened and where you
haven't looked what's behind.
Ciao
Christian
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Debian Developer and Quality Assurance Team Member
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