Re: On unresponsive maintainers (was: Re: On using magicfilter and gs)

[Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net>]

Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br> writes:

> Anyway, I have already merged some bugs on the BTS, but I myself can't do
> much. I would invite other users to help with this. Perhaps this way the
> bug count will drop and the maintainers will give up maintaining their
> packages, leaving room for some new blood.

Any developer can fix these problems; in general all that is necessary
is volunteering to be a new maintainer.  One can also alert the QA
team to specific problem cases, and packages can be orphaned when
maintainers are MIA.


Thomas