Re: mplayer 1.0pre7
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 07:53:50PM +0200, Adeodato Sim? wrote:
> * Russ Allbery [Mon, 25 Apr 2005 10:47:13 -0700]:
>
> > it's more clear what's going on; some packages are sitting, but most
> > things are being approved very quickly. mplayer (and hot-babe) are among
> > the ones that are sitting.
>
> And as I learnt yesterday, some of the ones "sitting" are still there
> because the maintainer hasn't reacted in weeks to mail from ftpmaster
> pointing out obvious problems with the package.
>
> Perhaps it'd be nice in the long term add a column with a short note
> enumerating the problems, or to CC the ITP bug the mail sent to the
> maintainer. This way, if a maintainer goes MIA, other interested
> people can know that the ball is in the maintainer's roof, not in
> ftpmasters', and offer to help.
Just for the record, while this is true for some packages, this is not
the case for mplayer -- the ball is at ftp-masters.
--Jeroen
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