On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 10:29:54AM +0200, Michael Hanke wrote: > > If you want to help over with that, step in and help the currently > > understaffed MIA team. > This is the main point! Changing the default from 'once in, in forever' > to 'in as long as being active' makes the MIA team obsolete. > > I do realize, that it is not that simple. As we have the concept of > packages being more or less 'owned' by their maintainers, some > desire to determine whether a package has to be orphaned remains -- > which has to be done someone. But the whole situation, including the > workload of the MIA team should improve dramatically once each > project member gets an automatic expiration date attached, because > it shifts the need to initiate an action from 'the project' to its > members.
Fair enough, this is possibly a _wonderful_ idea! Still, I believe that the appropriate where to discuss this is with the MIA team, because they do have experience in dealing with these kind of issues, don't you think? -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'รจ sempre /oo\ All one has to do is hit the right uno zaino -- A.Bergonzoni \__/ keys at the right time -- J.S.Bach
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