On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 12:11:25PM +1000, Jason Thomas wrote: > Hi, grub hasn't been orphaned. It is maintained by a group colaboration > on the pkg-grub-devel mailing list. I've had little time to work on grub > lately and all the update-grub stuff has been left upto me.
Isn't this a typical situation to file a RFH[0][1][2] on wnpp? I know, there is currently not a single RFH filed, but someone must be the first one. Add X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel to ensure that enough people read it. If more people did that, it'd be wort the effort to enable all kinds of QA pages to show nice overviews of packages that are requesting additional help, most likely in the form of co-maintainers (which is basically what RFH means most of the time, but not necessarily), just like is done now for packages that request a full maintainer takeover[4]. Alternatively, or in this case I'd say additionaly, tagging the appropriate bugs as 'help' might also attract people, and (also important) make it clear in the bug overview page that the maintainer(s) won't be able to quickly solve that bug(s) and is looking for additional advice/help. --Jeroen [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2003/debian-qa-200308/msg00145.html [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2003/debian-www-200311/msg00117.html [2] It isn't completely agreed on which TLA[3] to use, but RFH is quite general and would therefore fit most cases, whether there is really a request for co-maintainers, or merely some additional help, or bug triage, or whatever. By going for RFH, there will probably not be need for yet another wnpp tag soon. [3] Three Letter Acronym, http://wikipedia.org/wiki/TLA [4] This has apparantly been discussed already numerous times, but as of yet without success. However nothing is yet stopping you from filing RFH's, and I've put it on my TODO list to do something about this (i.e., file wishlist bugs and/or patches against the packages.qa.d.o, the wnpp overview pages, etc etc), since for already a long time this has been discussed, no-one objected to this, rather found it a good idea, but simply the implementation step stalled. -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl
