On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 10:52:04PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > This brings me to a more general issue: We need a procedure to > "disown" maintainers. I mean, if they prove they suck at maintaining > some package, some procedure to assign the package to someone > else. The initial request could come from upstream, pissed off users, > something like that (a "plaintiff"). Some procedure (a "trial") would > then decide whether removing maintainership of that package from the > maintainer would be just, fair and the better thing for Debian, its > users, free software. We need a carefully crafted policy to guide the > trial, to write down how these goals should be balanced. This is more general, but not applicable here. Upstream could have brought this issue to the attention of developers using any of a number of public forums; instead, he chose the software itself as his battlefield. I don't think having a bureaucratic procedure would have changed matters. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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