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Re: Timeout of ITP's



On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 08:38:53PM +0200, Søren Boll Overgaard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> An ITP[1] on thunderbird[2] was originally submitted to the BTA back in
> June. Since then, for various reasons, no package has been uploaded, and
> someone other then the original submitter of the ITP has committed to
> uploading a package. However, nothing has happened for nearly a month
> now, and the ping I sent just over a week ago has gone unanswered.
> 
> So, my question is, how long should an ITP be allowed to just sit there
> before someone else (in this case myself or anyone else who would be
> interested) can go ahead and "hijack" it? I couldn't seem to find any
> relevant information regarding this in the developers reference, the
> policy manual or on google.

Thunderbird is too important a package for us not to be distributing.  I
think a month is more than generous.

--Adam

-- 
Adam McKenna  <adam@debian.org>  <adam@flounder.net>



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