Re: tb's questions for the candidates
* Anthony Towns (aj@azure.humbug.org.au) [040305 16:40]:
> On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 02:32:45PM +0000, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > * Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> [2004-03-05 15:25]:
> > > > I disagree with this. I think that maintainers who neglect their
> > > > duties and don't follow documented procedures (orphan their
> > > > packages, inform the keyring maintainer that they are leaving the
> > > > project [1]) should not be treated the same as maintainers who
> > > > leave the project properly.
> > > Then how should they be treated, exactly?
> > They should be treated like people who don't follow their duties,
> > which is what they did. In practice, this means that someone who left
> > Debian properly by resigning can easily come back by mailing the
> > keyring maintainer. Those who did not retire properly, on the other
> > hand, will have to go through New Maintainer in order to ensure they
> > understand their duties and procedures in Debian.
> So, for example, I should be put through n-m again immediately because I
> haven't been doing regular maintenance of cruft or ifupdown?
I consider this a good idea, yes. Thanks for that proposal.
Cheers,
Andi
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