Re: Self-assessment of the quality of the maintenance work

2008-12-20 Thread Filippo Giunchedi
Hi, On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 06:19:26PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > The basic idea is quite simple, we want to ensure that each package is > maintained as well as possible and for this we need to ensure that > it has one or more active maintainer(s). Hence every X months, each > maintainer rece

Re: Self-assessment of the quality of the maintenance work

2008-12-20 Thread Enrico Zini
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 07:32:01PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > It could also be used to create a new "maintenance" facet in debtags. > maint::orphaned, maint::active, maint::passive, maint::help-needed, > maint::need-active-maint I've been thinking about such a maintenance facet for quite a w

Re: Self-assessment of the quality of the maintenance work

2008-12-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Hertzog writes: > The basic idea is quite simple, we want to ensure that each package is > maintained as well as possible and for this we need to ensure that > it has one or more active maintainer(s). Hence every X months, each > maintainer receives a mail with a link to a web form where

Re: Self-assessment of the quality of the maintenance work

2008-12-20 Thread Florian Weimer
* Raphael Hertzog: > - what kind of maintainer he is > - active (responding quickly, forwarding bugs, …) > - passive (responds only to major problems) > - backup (not doing anything unless solicited) > - if the package needs an active maintainer or not (most perl modules are > well maintai

Re: Self-assessment of the quality of the maintenance work

2008-12-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 20 Dec 2008, Luk Claes wrote: > I don't think sending active maintainers questionaires is very helpful. I don't think the active/not active criteria is so easy to find out. I can be active on dpkg while being not active on my others packages. At some point I must recognize that I've lost i

Re: Self-assessment of the quality of the maintenance work

2008-12-20 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-12-20, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Thanks for your constructive comments??? and the nice vocabulary. Then I'm glad I didn't send my first draft with bad vocubulary. Would a reply like: "Thank you for your idea about improving quality of packages in debian, but I don't think there is anyth

Re: Self-assessment of the quality of the maintenance work

2008-12-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Responding to myself to share other details related to this idea that I didn't want to include in the initial mail. On Sat, 20 Dec 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > The basic idea is quite simple, we want to ensure that each package is > maintained as well as possible and for this we need to ensure t

Re: Self-assessment of the quality of the maintenance work

2008-12-20 Thread Luk Claes
Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sat, 20 Dec 2008, Sune Vuorela wrote: >> On 2008-12-20, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >>> maintainer receives a mail with a link to a web form where he'll have a >>> list of all the packages that he maintains/co-maintains and for each >>> package he has to answer several quest

Re: Self-assessment of the quality of the maintenance work

2008-12-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 20 Dec 2008, Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2008-12-20, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > maintainer receives a mail with a link to a web form where he'll have a > > list of all the packages that he maintains/co-maintains and for each > > package he has to answer several questions that explain his rela

Re: Self-assessment of the quality of the maintenance work

2008-12-20 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-12-20, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > maintainer receives a mail with a link to a web form where he'll have a > list of all the packages that he maintains/co-maintains and for each > package he has to answer several questions that explain his relationship > with the package (the answer are prese

Self-assessment of the quality of the maintenance work

2008-12-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, I would like to propose something new that would partially supersede the work done by the MIA team and that would also generate new information somehow related to the topic of WNPP. The basic idea is quite simple, we want to ensure that each package is maintained as well as possible and fo