On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 18:22:21 +0100 Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> fwiw, it's available at http://cvs.debian.org/mia/README?cvsroot=qa > (Although I still think the procedure should be to mail -qa and someone > there doing MIA stuff takes care of the rest.) what do you think about this?: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- developers-reference.sgml.old Tue Feb 19 23:43:24 2002 +++ developers-reference.sgml Tue Feb 19 23:43:01 2002 @@ -364,6 +364,20 @@ in order to catch up the backlog of bugs that you have (you can ask for help on &email-debian-qa; or &email-debian-devel;). + <sect id="mia-qa">Dealing with Missing in Action (MIA) Maintainers + <p> +If you notice that a package is lacking maintenance, you should +make sure the maintainer is active and will continue his work on +his packages. Try contacting him/her yourself. If you do not get +a reply in some days you should collect all useful information about +this maintainer. Start by logging in to the <url id="http://db.debian.org"; +name="Debian Developer's Database"> and doing a full search to +check wheter the maintainer is on vacation and when he/she was +last seen. Collect any important package names he/she maintains and +any Release Critical bugs filled against them. Send all this information +to &email-debian-qa, in order to let the QA people do whatever is +needed. + <sect>Retiring Gracefully <p> If you choose to leave the Debian project, you should make sure you do ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- []s! -- Gustavo Noronha Silva - kov <http://www.metainfo.org/kov> *---------* -+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+-+ | .''`. | Debian GNU/Linux: <http://www.debian.org> | | : :' : + Debian BR.......: <http://debian-br.cipsga.org.br>+ | `. `'` + Q: "Why did the chicken cross the road?" + | `- | A: "Upstream's decision." -- hmh | *---------* -+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+-+
