Sorry, this was actually supposed to go to debian-qa and I failed to pay attention to what my mail client was doing.
Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> writes: > Raphael Geissert <atomo64+deb...@gmail.com> writes: >> Russ Allbery wrote: > >>> If I don't have time to do a proper job of maintaining the package, I >>> *definitely* don't have time to form a team, which takes even more time >>> than just maintaining the package. > >> Is using collab-maint so complicated? pinging the maints of the rdepends >> so that they all work together via collab-maint shouldn't be so >> complicated. > > Uploading the package to collab-maint is trivial, but it doesn't make it > any less orphaned. There still isn't anyone really maintaining it. I > don't think use of collab-maint really has much to do with anything; I'm > already using it for one of my packages, but I actually adopted that one. > > If we're talking about a group of people taking collective responsibility > for keeping orphaned packages kicking along, I guess I'm not sure how that > differs from what we already have right now. (Although using a shared > source control system for orphaned packages while they're in the care of > the QA group seems like a good idea.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
