Re: MIA, Incompetent and holiday-loving maintainers (was: Request for NMUs.)
* Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org> [2004-01-01 15:39]:
> May I ask why it's not linked from the qa.debian.org page? That link
> was almost impossibile to found for me, maybe the same happened to
> other developers?
The QA web site is a POS; I intend to write a QA HOWTO which will
cover this and other aspects. Unfortunately, when I asked which
topics to cover I didn't even get a response (although this is not the
reason I haven't started on the HOWTO yet). See
http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2003/debian-qa-200311/msg00105.html
However, the QA web site has a link "How to report inactive
maintainers" to a section of the Developers' Reference which covers
most things:
http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-beyond-pkging.en.html#s-mia-qa
This section currently doesn't mention mia-check, but a wishlist bug
has been filed about this (#213961: document MIA database). I might
submit a patch for this later today, thanks for reminding me.
For those who're really interested in this, I have written a paper
about the problem of inactive maintainers. I cannot put it on a web
site currently, but you can grab a copy from gluck.d.o:~tbm/mia.pdf
if you agree not to circulate it widely (non-DDs can mail me
privately).
> BTW Am I completely fool or this stuff used to be called "Debian MIA
> Check" in the past?
Yeah, somee people have called it that - but it's not a fully
automated system or anything, as your last mail seemed to suggest.
--
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com
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