On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 11:24:50AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:03:03AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > - it's difficult to keep track of who is caring for that package (hint: > > QA, MIA, ...) > > Uh? Why? Your maintainer field seems to address this issue. In our > scheme that's would be more a problem, but if the mailing list is > responsive it's enough. Think for example at the debian-release mailing > list: it's a list, but it's really responsive for all packages in the > archive. So IMO not being able to identify a single person is not > necessarily an indicator of unresponsiveness for a given package. What he means is that when people are listed automatically as Maitnainer/Uploader, the fact that the package is well maintained may hide that a particular DD do nothing at all, and is in fact MIA. Last-action of a DD is computed using many ways, uploads of package where he is in Maintainer/Uploader beeing among them, and it hides real MIAs from the mia tracking scripts, and that's bad, because it prevent good QA work, and generate more and more bitrot. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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