This is a sorted (worst offenders first) list of maintainers who have excessive numbers of old RC bugs open against their packages. Bugs less than 30 days old are not considered. The list is sorted based, vaguely, on a score proportional to the age and severity of each bug. I am considering one critical bug for over 2 months, or an equivalent score, to be "excessive" (manually excluding hurd, debian-boot, and debian-glibc). If your name is on this list, your packages need work. If you don't have time to deal with them, find people to help you maintain them properly, or orphan some of them; the status quo is *not* good enough. That includes the people who maintain large packages, or large numbers of packages. If you don't understand why you are on this list, use the "maintainer address" query on http://bugs.debian.org/ and look for old RC bugs. If you still don't understand, mail me and I'll tell you. It is fairly likely that some of these are bugs which should have been closed. This does matter, leaving the bugs open makes it harder to find real problems. I intend to do this again in a few weeks, if there are still a significant number of old RC bugs. [Some of these people are probably MIA. One or two of them had *better* be MIA; I analysed the first dozen names, and some of them have no other possible excuse. Kai, that includes you. It's possible, but unlikely, that some are the result of orphaned packages which are still listed as maintained by them. Cross-referencing with wnpp proved too tricky for this pass.] Kai Henningsen Christopher L Cheney Thomas Schoepf Akira Yamada Rob Tillotson Mark W Eichin Branden Robinson Daniel Burrows Martin Schulze Norbert Veber Rob Browning Barak Pearlmutter Takuo Kitame Masato Taruishi Guenter Geiger Piotr Roszatycki Richard Kreckel Takashi Okamoto Michael Alan Dorman Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam Matt Taggart David Coe Mark Purcell Olaf Stetzer Daniel Glassey Ryuichi Arafune Yann Dirson Patrick Patterson Mika Fischer Viral Shah Kyle McMartin Matthew Wilcox Paul Hedderly Josef Spillner William Lee Irwin III Martin Mitchell Greg Olszewski Santiago Garcia Mantinan Pavel Tcholakov Pawel Wiecek Adrian Bridgett Zephaniah E Hull Kihyeon Seo Sam "Eddie" Couter Paul Slootman Marcelo Magallon Maurizio Boriani Jens Schmalzing Siggi Langauf Dale Scheetz Shaun Jackman Dima Barsky Mark Johnson Pablo Baena Federico Di Gregorio Petr Cech Mark Howard Jonas Smedegaard Stephen Zander Jan-Hendrik Palic Peter Gervai Jefferson E Noxon Jeremy T Bouse Nils Rennebarth Ryszard Lach Lamont Jones Joerg Jaspert Raphael Bossek Josip Rodin Ed Boraas Michael Stone Stefan Hornburg Jules Bean Scott M Dier James R Van Zandt Mikael Andersson Klaus Knopper -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | Dept. of Computing, `. `' | Imperial College, `- -><- | London, UK
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