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Re: Removing Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@debian.org) from the project.



Le Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 12:14:24PM -0500, Michael Alan Dorman écrivait:
> What, then do we do?  What are our standards?  What reponse time must
> we volunteers maintain?  And remember, _some_ specific issues we've
> been discussing are not 800 days old, they're 40, or 39 or 16.

Some ideas : 
- ask for help
- orphan one or two packages
- accept NMUs

> Furthermore, what do we do about the *other* packages that are in this
> situation.  bash, for instance---arguably more important than anything
> I maintain right now---has bugs nearly two years old.  How about
> boot-floppies---it's got stuff as old as anything in my packages.
> Cron?  emacs (pick your favorite version)?  LILO?

All bugs should be closed. And a package with many bugs *can* be corrected.
I dit it for dpkg-ftp when I adopted it (it had 88 bugs and only one
wishlist bug remain [1]) and Vincent Renardias did many NMUs for various
buggy packages (the last one beeing wu-ftpd-academ with more than 60 bugs
closed).

> Or maybe I should say "you", since the only response I've heard is
> netgod, who feels that my status in tbe BTS abrogates anything I might

I must say that posting a message to debian-devel asking for your 
removal was a sort of provocation. Like if you wanted to say, I'm proud
of my bugs. :) Hopefully this is not the case.

Cheers,

[1] However many bugs were already fixed by NMUs and many bugs had
been reported multiple times. That's why I was able to close more of them
in a WE.
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog >> 0C4CABF1 >> http://prope.insa-lyon.fr/~rhertzog/


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