Re: [Fwd: [RFC] Making NM 'by recommendation']
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 03:10:39PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> We have 6500 packages and climbing. We don't need that many if
> we can't maintain quality.
True.
> Each developer should maintain as many packages as it should
> (yes, I am belabouring the obvious here). If you don't have enough
> time, give some packages up. Either they get maintianed, or they are
> dropped. Chances are that packages useful to others are going to be
> picked up by people.
Not every debian maintainer are up to your standard, sigh...
If one takes a look at the bug report web page, you can see some popular
optional packages have their maintainers in hibernation. If you want to
keep quality up, there should be automatic checking of maintainer's
activity. (Sometimes package gets updated but bug report seems not
to be updated and stays there for ever.)
If maintainer is in hibernation, those package needs to be orphaned
or adoped by others. If maintainer does not bother bug report maintenance,
why accept it??
> Any developer can NMU a package if there is need -- and the
> above sounde like the maintainer needed help.
I send private mail on this matter to you.
> Sorry. *ANY* package gives the developer root priviledgesd on
> machines where that pacakge is installed.
True.
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