Re: On unresponsive maintainers (was: Re: On using magicfilter and gs)
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On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 09:50:32PM -0400, Michael D. Crawford wrote:
> Is there any formal requirement that a maintainer be responsive, or even do
> his job at all?
>
> Is there a procedure for taking a package away from a maintainer, and
> having someone else take care of maintaining it?
>
> I don't know anything about the packages in question or their maintainer,
> but if he's really being unresponsive, somebody should look into it in a
> serious way.
>
Hi Michael,
yes there are procedures -- ususally asked on the debian-devel list they
discuss that. With debian there are at least 2 people involved: the debian developer(s) who maintain the debian package and the upstream developer. Debian has procedures to 'ping' the debian folks and if those involved are unresponsive, then someone can make a request to take it over.
- -Kev
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