Re: Helping busy maintainers

2003-10-08 Thread Roland Mas
Martin Pitt, 2003-10-08 19:20:18 +0200 : > But since IANADD (yet) I would need a sponsor for every upload; in > the last weeks I've sent quite a bunch of bug followups which were > only scarcely answered, thus half-MIA maintainers might not be the > best sponsor candidates... > > Can I still be of

Re: Helping busy maintainers

2003-10-08 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 10:08:07 -0700 Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alioth has been a terrific resource for me in this regard. Using it and > dpatch, I'm easily able to co-maintain packages, maintain bugs, and keep > releases in check with multiple developers. > > I'd highly recomme

Re: Helping busy maintainers

2003-10-08 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Martin Michlmayr wrote: There are some developers who are clearly too busy to maintain their packages properly, but yet cannot be considered inactive enough so that their packages should be given away. I'd like to have a group of people who are willing to help those developers out by co-maintai

Re: Helping busy maintainers

2003-10-08 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi! Am 2003-10-09 1:45 +1000 schrieb Martin Michlmayr: > There are some developers who are clearly too busy to maintain their > packages properly, but yet cannot be considered inactive enough so > that their packages should be given away. I'd like to have a group of > people who are willing to h

Re: Dima Barsky MIA?

2003-10-08 Thread Dima Barsky
Hello Andreas, No, I'm still alive, only came back from holidays yesterday. I'll need a few days to go through my mailbox, so I intend to upload the next version of cyrus-sasl2 this weekend. Regards, Dima.

Re: Dima Barsky MIA?

2003-10-08 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 04:44:25PM +0100, Dima Barsky wrote: > No, I'm still alive, only came back from holidays yesterday. I'll need > a few days to go through my mailbox, so I intend to upload the next > version of cyrus-sasl2 this weekend. Sorry for the noise. thanks, cu andreas

Helping busy maintainers

2003-10-08 Thread Martin Michlmayr
There are some developers who are clearly too busy to maintain their packages properly, but yet cannot be considered inactive enough so that their packages should be given away. I'd like to have a group of people who are willing to help those developers out by co-maintaining their packages for a w

Re: Dima Barsky MIA?

2003-10-08 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-08 17:15]: > Browsing over the RC bugs list I ended up checking cyrus-sasl2's page > on packages.qa.debian.org. According to the public[1] echelon info > (Last modified) dima was last seen on 2003/08/13 12:49:13 UTC and most > of the packages have been

Re: status of libglibwww-ssl1

2003-10-08 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-09-22 07:58]: > libglibwww-ssl1 has an RC bug but I think we do not really need this > package any more. It resides in non-US but should be moved to main and > libglibwww1 should be compiled with SSL support. This remove just would > reduce the number of

Dima Barsky MIA?

2003-10-08 Thread Andreas Metzler
Hello, Browsing over the RC bugs list I ended up checking cyrus-sasl2's page on packages.qa.debian.org. According to the public[1] echelon info (Last modified) dima was last seen on 2003/08/13 12:49:13 UTC and most of the packages have been NMU'd at least once. I am asking because libsasl2 is prio

Re: Proposal: Remove gutenbrowser from unstable & testing, and MIA its maintainer

2003-10-08 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-04 04:19]: > Its maintainer appears to have only the name "Viral". Some of the other > packages by the maintainer at least claim that the maintainer is "Viral Shah". I orphaned his mosix packages a few months ago; at that time, he said he'd maintain

Re: status of libglibwww-ssl1

2003-10-08 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-09-22 07:58]: > libglibwww-ssl1 has an RC bug but I think we do not really need this > package any more. It resides in non-US but should be moved to main and > libglibwww1 should be compiled with SSL support. This remove just would > reduce the number of