Dear Ian: I wanted to make you aware of a status update. The maintainer who has been doing most of the uploads on modemmanager stepped down after receiving my query. First, I'd like to extend my thanks to Michael for his hard work on modemmanager in the past and all the things he continues to do for Debian. Second, I'm glad that he stepped aside when it was time to do so: doing that is an important part of staying healthy. As a matter of process, it's not clear that there's an active maintainer of modemmanager. Speaking as an individual, but not as a TC member (I haven't talked to anyone else), I think it would be reasonable to treat modemmanager as a package that is under-maintained at the moment in which you've found a bug you care about, approaching things and balancing the same as you might in any similar situation. With more of a TC hat on, I am very reluctant to rule on this issue without an active modemmanager maintainer. I don't think there is a compelling need to do so, and I don't want to rule out the possibility of a modemmanager maintainer coming along later and presenting an argument about how we should balance this issue. I don't think the lack of a ruling will be a blocking force at the current time. I won't stand in the way of other members who do want to rule on this issue. However, I cannot imagine getting to a point where I'd vote anything other than FD or defer on this issue right now Also, as may be obvious from my previous post today, I was shaken by some of the meta issues here. I am much more focused at the moment on thinking about the TC process and our community than I am about this issue.
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