On 22/07/09 at 18:49 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 06:23:05PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > I have nothing against this in principle, but how is this any > > different from the people who manage the MIA database? > > The main difference is the automation of the process. MIA, which > currently is 1 person, requires manual activity and efforts. If we > agree that automatically, if you stop exercising your DD rights, you > go away after 2 years, the energy which we currently spend in MIA [1] > can be better spend in doing other QA activities. > > I really don't see the benefit in the added MIA layer. You stop > working for Debian for a long period: you go away; the day you'll > re-gain interest: you can come back.
MIA is also about detecting packages that are de-facto orphaned, not just about developers. Actually, I think that it's more important that we work on detecting packages that are badly maintained, rather than on detecting inactive maintainers. Inactive maintainers do not make harm by definition. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: lu...@nussbaum.fr GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
