Re: Dealing with maintainers who are MIA

2001-02-17 Thread John Ferlito
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 12:11:09PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Contacting first, waiting for permission, etc are polite and desirable, > but you don't *have* to wait for weeks in between, especially for packages > with RC bugs and with the freeze approaching. Also, you are allowed to > fix non-RC

Re: Dealing with maintainers who are MIA

2001-02-17 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 06:21:26PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > There must be better guidelines what to do in such > cases: it should be easier to do NMUs, to take over packages and to remove > people from the project. As far as NMUs go, there are really only three *rules*: make sure you get i