Re: WNPP cleanup procedures
* Thomas Bushnell BSG (tb@becket.net) [040809 22:25]:
> Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> writes:
> > I did take 6 months for an ITP, and one year for a RFP as lower limit
> > for any action; however, if I saw good reason from the history of a
> > bug report to not do anything, then I didn't write mail at all.
> By RFP you mean ITA?
No, I meant: Request for Packages and Intend to Package.
> I think six months and a year is a really long time; the idea I have
> in mind is that after say a month it is reasonable to ask: how are
> things going? can we help?
Well, generally, yes. But I had enough bugs to handle in either case,
so I decided for this long time. ;)
If someone is doing that more often, of course shorter times would be
better.
> > > Also, a separate question: packages which transitioned from O to ITA
> > > are still officially orphaned, but we don't track them at
> > > http://qa.debian.org/orphaned.html, right?
> > AFAICS, yes. We track them however at other places.
> Where?
Well, there is a list of ITA packages. Of course, you need to take a
look into the bug report if you want to see whether it's O/ITA or
RFA/ITA.
> > > Finally, there seems to be a bug in the WNPP labels, because an ITA
> > > package could be either orphaned (and about to be adopted), or
> > > maintained with an RFA (and about to be adopted). Those are very
> > > different states from a QA standpoint; if it is RFA->ITA then the old
> > > and new maintainers have collective responsibility; but if it is
> > > O->ITA, then QA has the responsibility.
> >
> > Well, yes. But that's just the way it is. ;)
> > (Do you have two new nice lables? If so, please tell.)
>
> Well, perhaps we could change RFA/ITA to RFT/ITT, which would mean
> "Request for Transfer" and "Intent to Transfer"?
Well, I don't like Transfer, and I also don't like to change one of
them away. Both would be better, as then one can see whether it's just
an "old bug report", or the new one.
Cheers,
Andi
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