On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 11:44:56PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva 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
Good thinking, BTW. > @@ -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 How about "Dealing with unreachable 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 s,him/her,them, > +a reply in some days you should collect all useful information about s,in some days,after a few days (weeks), > +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 s,wheter,whether,; s,he/she was,they were, > +last seen. Collect any important package names he/she maintains and s,he/she maintains,they maintain, -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.
