On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 04:32:47PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > > + <sect id="mia-qa">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 to work on > +their packages. Try contacting them yourself.
Add a <p> at this point. > If you do not get > +a reply after a few weeks 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 whether the maintainer is on vacation and when they were > +last seen. Collect any important package names they maintain and > +any Release Critical bugs filled against them. And perhaps here, too. > 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > any other point? I am still not convinced about that last sentence.... > is it good enough or should we specify this 'whatever is needed'? I'd leave it as it is. > if people find this is good enough I'll file a wishlist on > developers-reference Oh, just commit it, I really don't think Adam will mind... OTOH if you don't have commit rights to that tree, let me know and I will. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.
