One of the points that came up in my argument with Christian was that
it'd be nice if we could split discussions of orphaned package
maintenance off to a separate list. This was the original rationale for
changing the orphaned Maintainer: field to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>), and the
timeline was "a few months". We now have 32 packages maintained by
debian-qa and 223 packages maintained by [EMAIL PROTECTED], so it seems like
it's time for the next stage in the transition.
If there's consensus here then I'll request a new mailing list as
follows:
1. Name
debian-qa-packages
2. Rationale
Due to the large number of orphaned packages and the verbose
messages produced by the Debian Bug Tracking System and the archive
maintenance tools in relation to them, the signal-to-noise ratio on
the QA Group mailing list (debian-qa) is quite poor. We have spent
some time over the last few months changing the maintainer address
to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and would now like to be able to point
that address at a separate list so that debian-qa can be used for
more general discussions of quality assurance in Debian.
3. Long description
Bug reports against orphaned packages and discussions about fixing
them.
4. Category
Developers
5. Subscription Policy
Open
6. Post Policy
Open
7. Web-Archive
Yes (it's for discussion of bug reports as well as the reports
themselves)
8. Short description
Orphaned package maintenance
Comments?
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Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
