Il giorno mar, 12/01/2010 alle 02.37 -0800, Steve Langasek ha scritto: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 09:17:44AM +0100, Pietro Battiston wrote: > > Il giorno mar, 12/01/2010 alle 00.06 -0800, Steve Langasek ha scritto: > > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 08:56:08AM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 08:39, Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu> wrote: > > > > > I have no idea what makes you think that even more angry mails on > > > > > public > > > > > mailing list will solve the problem. > > > > > Be quiet won't solve it either, sadly. That's proved by the long > > > > silent period that provides not advance on the python > > > > maintainership-side. At least i'm proposing to form a group (and be > > > > part of that) to take over maintainership. > > > > A group hijack is still a hijack. I don't know why you try to make this > > > sound like some sort of noble enterprise for the good of Debian. > > > I'm certainly not a guru, but I never thought a hijack can't be noble > > and in particular for the good of Debian... pointers? > > Really? > > Here are some other words that go hand-in-hand with 'package hijack': > > - vigilante > - antisocial > - arrogant > - acrimonious > - disrespectful > - demotivating
Uhm, in our situation I doubt about the others, and I clearly feel "demotivating" is as far as possible from the truth. > > We have consensual processes for taking over unmaintained packages via the > QA Team, and we have processes of last resort to reasssign packages via the > Technical Committee if a maintainer is unwilling to give up the package. > There's no excuse for hijacking packages, and it's poisonous to the > atmosphere of the project. > QA team is clearly not a solution, and I don't see how the TC should be able to reach the same goal and in the meantime reconcile the spirits. I would have probably imagined the opposite... but it must certainly be because of my limited experience. Thanks for the clarification. Pietro
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