On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 01:00:50PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > >[Florian Weimer] > >>What about: stop threatening your fellow developers? > >Why is specifying the consequences of doing a bad job with maintaining > >ones debian packages threatening? > IMHO it isn't at all. > >Personally I believe it is time we made clear and written down > >explanations on what will happen to badly maintained packages, and > >then implement it, to make sure the quality of the packages still in > >Debian when this policy is implement is higher than the current level. > In addition to the list of Anthony I might add: > Require kind of a monthly status report of the maintainer. There must be a > reason if an RC bug is open longer than a month. The maintainer should > give reasons like "Need help", "Discussing with upstream", ... > If the RC bug is two month old: "Sorry, got no help", "Upstream is > ignorant", > ... > If a maintainer would not manage to respond to an RC bug for three months > the package is obviousely not maintained and should be taken over by > somebody else, IMHO. I think the problem with saying "it should be taken over by somebody else", is this: <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?maint=packages@qa.debian.org&sev-inc=grave&sev-inc=serious&sev-inc=critical> 35 open RC bugs on orphaned packages at severity: serious or higher, some of them months or even years old. 14 of them are on packages with versions in testing (these would be the ones with the newer RC bugs), the rest are on packages that are not candidates for release in etch. If RC bugs go unanswered for 3 months, I agree that something should be done; I just don't think that saying someone else should take it over is necessarily enough. I believe we need clearer methods for handling packages in the case that *no one* is handling them, nor will do so. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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