On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 06:33:58PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > As a general principle, I'm with Bart here. I don't think we will > benefit from a new, relatively complex, procedure that overlaps with > other existing mechanisms. > > Socially, we need to acknowledge the fact that the current procedure to > orphan packages might be too heavyweight, and too coarse-grained, to > efficiently deal with the frequent situation where maintainers lose > interest in specific packages. ... > I don't know what to make of the "seconds" suggestion by Bart, though. I > understand the rationale, but is not clear to me how to raise the > interest by other DDs in reviewing the "intent to orphan" bugs filed by > 3rd parties. Maybe we should document to post them on -qa? That *might* > have the side-effect of fostering the creation of a review community for > these kind of actions on -qa. Mumble mumble...
Posting them on -qa sounds like a good idea to me. Can you elaborate on that "side-effect" ? I don't understand that part. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120930181016.ge2...@master.debian.org
