Re: MIA (or derelict) maintainers list

2003-12-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003, Dave Baker wrote:

> Andreas - I don't know where the problem is.  You've claimed several times
> to have been unable to reach me, yet the only emails I receive are the
> complaints.
This is strange.

> I replied the last time (the NMU for curator) but received no
> response.
I noticed that some mails to my [EMAIL PROTECTED] account got lost
in the process of the break in.  Perhaps this caused some confusion.
Sorry if the silence I noticed was caused by technical problems.

On the other hand I did not found any response to any of your
curator related bug reports in the BTS.

If I look at jhead (an other package of you) I see some responses
from more than one year ago but the bugs stay unclosed.  This
is normally a sign for beeing MIA - which is no shame at all.  I just
wanted to help.

> Go ahead and orphan the packages if you wish.
I do not want to orphan any package of an other developer.  This
would be your job.  It would be nice if you would close the bugs which
where fixed in my last NMU.

Kind regards

  Andreas.

-- 
Sie schaffen eine Wüste und nennen es Frieden.
-- Publius Cornelius Tacitus (55-120)



Re: MIA (or derelict) maintainers list

2003-12-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 11:16:11AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> If I look at jhead (an other package of you) I see some responses
> from more than one year ago but the bugs stay unclosed.  This
> is normally a sign for beeing MIA - which is no shame at all.  I just
> wanted to help.

Can I just suggest that the "wanting to help" should come well before
talk of being MIA? Active-but-busy developers would rightly take
exception to being called missing-in-action; I don't think the term
should be thrown around too lightly.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson  [EMAIL PROTECTED]



Re: MIA (or derelict) maintainers list

2003-12-15 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Il lun, 2003-12-15 alle 15:01, Colin Watson ha scritto:
> Active-but-busy developers would rightly take
> exception to being called missing-in-action; I don't think the term
> should be thrown around too lightly.

This is true, but it is also true that there is no shame in orphaning
some of your packages if you're too busy to maintain them properly. 

Cheers,
-- 
Emanuele Rocca - 1024D/EAF19B60



Re: MIA (or derelict) maintainers list

2003-12-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Colin Watson wrote:

> Can I just suggest that the "wanting to help" should come well before
> talk of being MIA? Active-but-busy developers would rightly take
> exception to being called missing-in-action; I don't think the term
> should be thrown around too lightly.
You might search the archive of debian-qa and debian-python for my
"wanting to help" mails for curator.

Kind regards

   Andreas.