Re: Debian QA Policy Draft

1999-03-30 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 07:20:09PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > It would be a proper action to write to -devel that package x, y and z > > > need a new maintainer and people who are interested should speak up. > > > > Yes, but by someone in position and who has every right to do so. > > I wo

Re: Debian QA Policy Draft

1999-03-29 Thread Richard Braakman
Martin Schulze wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > > Martin Schulze wrote: > > > Re-upload the known orphaned packages with the 'Maintainer' field > > > set to: "Orphaned Package " > > > > We're currently using "Maintainer: Debian QA Group > > " > > > > I forget whatever log-ago discussion requted i

Re: Debian QA Policy Draft

1999-03-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 09:53:01PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Maintainers: > > > > How much work is expected from the maintainers? > > Can we refrain from formalising this too much? Personally, I quite like the > way this works at the moment -- if there'

Re: Debian QA Policy Draft

1999-03-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Joey Hess wrote: > Martin Schulze wrote: > > Re-upload the known orphaned packages with the 'Maintainer' field > > set to: "Orphaned Package " > > We're currently using "Maintainer: Debian QA Group > " > > I forget whatever log-ago discussion requted in that exact string, but it is > already

Re: Debian QA Policy Draft

1999-03-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Josip Rodin wrote: > > > BTW what can we do with maintainers who can't be reached by e-mails, > > > and their packages need attention? How can we know that they will/won't > > > > Please take a look at debian-policy where I've posted the 2nd half of > > Vincent's proposal. The QA team need to be

Re: Debian QA Policy Draft

1999-03-29 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 03:01:12PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > > The tech committee has a private group debian-ctte-private. > > When I became a maintainer I heard only of one private list (which I was > subscribed on), debian-private. Why isn't that address written somewhere? Sorry, I was wrong.

Re: Debian QA Policy Draft

1999-03-29 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 11:13:43PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > Re-upload the known orphaned packages with the 'Maintainer' field > > > set to: "Orphaned Package " > > > > I've seen only 'Debian QA Group' (and variations) in Maintainer: fields > > so far - isn't that more suitable? Users

Re: Debian QA Policy Draft

1999-03-29 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 09:53:01PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > Maintainers: > > How much work is expected from the maintainers? Can we refrain from formalising this too much? Personally, I quite like the way this works at the moment -- if there's a buggy package that you can fix,

Re: Debian QA Policy Draft

1999-03-28 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Schulze wrote: > Re-upload the known orphaned packages with the 'Maintainer' field > set to: "Orphaned Package " We're currently using "Maintainer: Debian QA Group " I forget whatever log-ago discussion requted in that exact string, but it is already used for about 25 packages and I do

Re: Debian QA Policy Draft

1999-03-28 Thread Christian Kurz
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Every Debian maintainer/user is encouraged to subscribe to the DQAG > mailing list and become an active DQAG member. So as I'm going to go through the bug reports and start fixing the bugs, I would like to become a member of the QA-Team. I will have

Re: Debian QA Policy Draft

1999-03-28 Thread Martin Schulze
Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 09:53:01PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Re-upload the known orphaned packages with the 'Maintainer' field > > set to: "Orphaned Package " > > I've seen only 'Debian QA Group' (and variations) in Maintainer: fields > so far - isn't that more suit

Re: Debian QA Policy Draft

1999-03-28 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 09:53:01PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > Re-upload the known orphaned packages with the 'Maintainer' field > set to: "Orphaned Package " I've seen only 'Debian QA Group' (and variations) in Maintainer: fields so far - isn't that more suitable? Users will be scared to u

Debian QA Policy Draft

1999-03-28 Thread Martin Schulze
This is what Vincent Renardias wrote about Debian QA: -- Debian QA Policy Draft -- Vincent Renardias <[EMAIL PROTEC