Re: Bug#1053165: ITS: nunit

[Gioele Barabucci <gioele@svario.it>]

On 28/09/23 17:22, Bastian Germann wrote:
> Okay. What do you suggest for "team maintained" packages where there is 
> no active team member?
> File MIA processes for each of the uploaders? And then? The MIA team's 
> bugs are not RC bugs,

An automatic time-based "orphaning + RC" process like the one described 
in [1] would solve (or greatly reduce) of most of these issues.

> I think, just letting such packages rot for one or two decades does not 
> help anybody, certainly not our users.

I'd say that this whole discussion reinforces the need for a third 
option between "it's fully maintained" and "it's orphaned" [2]. A third 
option that recognizes and provides rules for low-commitment QA work on 
non-actively maintained packages.

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2023/09/msg00237.html
[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2023/09/msg00358.html

Regards,

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Gioele Barabucci