Patrick Ouellette writes ("MIA Maintainer Process Proposal"):
> Attached is a proposal for dealing with MIA maintainers.
Can I make a suggestion for some `patter' that might be helpful ?
Remember that the purpose of having an MIA maintainer procedure is not
to punish develope
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 04:08:06PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > Good guidelines. One point: we must always remember to check whether
> > a maintainer has filled in the "On vacation" field in the DB.
> > Occasionally, developers are forced to go on extended l
Previously Julian Gilbey wrote:
> Good guidelines. One point: we must always remember to check whether
> a maintainer has filled in the "On vacation" field in the DB.
> Occasionally, developers are forced to go on extended leave (army
> callups or similar).
Some maintainer also forget to remove t
> > Attached is a proposal for dealing with MIA maintainers.
I'd like to see something in there about CC-ing debian-private on some
of those E-mails. Other developers may have information about what's
happened to the MIA.
-itai
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 02:21:46PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
>
> Your times are completely absurd (no offense intended). Plus, I think
> you forgot that if a maintainer emails saying "I
> am going on a sabatical, I will be out for 6 months" they should get
> some leeway.
I just put some numbers
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 01:58:20PM -0500, Patrick Ouellette wrote:
>
> Attached is a proposal for dealing with MIA maintainers.
Good guidelines. One point: we must always remember to check whether
a maintainer has filled in the "On vacation" field in the DB.
Occasionally, developers are forced t
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 01:58:20PM -0500, Patrick Ouellette wrote:
>
> Suggested time / minimum activity guidelines:
>
> Package upload once in 4 months
> or
> Active on Debian lists / IRC channels in last 3 months.
> Reasonable reply times for NMU:
>
> Security issues: immediate response ( < 2
Attached is a proposal for dealing with MIA maintainers.
Read, Relax, Enjoy..
At Nils' suggestion, I am posting my proposed guidelines for
dealing with the MIA maintainer problem. There are a number
of grey areas - particularly the length of time someone does
respond to email and has not
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