-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 22/05/13 07:16 AM, viv...@gmail.com wrote: > On 05/22/13 13:06, Michael Palimaka wrote: >> On 22/05/2013 20:41, Thomas Sachau wrote: >>> Michael Palimaka schrieb: >>>> On 22/05/2013 20:07, viv...@gmail.com wrote: >>>>> On 05/22/13 11:43, Michael Palimaka wrote: >>>>>> On 22/05/2013 19:22, viv...@gmail.com wrote: >>>>>>> On 05/21/13 23:38, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: >>>>>>>> Am Dienstag, 21. Mai 2013, 15:38:44 schrieb Thomas >>>>>>>> Sachau: >>>>>>>>> And if a maintainer is not responding within 30 >>>>>>>>> days, you can ping him or, without a response, try >>>>>>>>> to get a different maintainer. Just assuming that a >>>>>>>>> stable request is ok without a maintainer response >>>>>>>>> is really not a good idea. >>>>>>>> If none of the listed maintainers responds to a bug >>>>>>>> in 30 days in any way, the package is effectively >>>>>>>> unmaintained. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> And thus its risky to mark it stable. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> That's why we have arch teams in the first place, to test >>>>>> beforehand. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> The risky part is about the after, not the before, to avoid >>>>> the risks arch teams should keep the package working >>>>> *after* it has stabilized. Seem to be a good case for those >>>>> things that need to be evaluated case by case and could not >>>>> be written in stone. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> I am confused as to what you are proposing. Do you want arch >>>> teams to continually test packages that are already in stable >>>> to make sure they haven't broken somehow? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> The point is probably, that when you stable a package with >>> inactive maintainer, there will be noone following the opened >>> bugs against this new version. >>> >>> So this looks like a case, where one should ask for a new >>> maintainer, who then decides about the stable versions instead >>> of doing auto-stabilization. >>> >> If the maintainer is inactive, presumably nobody is looking at >> bugs for the old version either. >> >> > And the circle is closed since we started with the correlation "no > answer to stable bug in 30 days" => "package unmantained" ;-) >
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