On Saturday 8 December 2007 18:20, Luk Claes wrote: > Nico Golde wrote: > > Hi Mario, > > * Mario Iseli <mario@debian.org> [2007-12-06 21:33]: > > [...] > > > >> Team maintenance > >> ================ > >> If one package of the person is maintained in a team, at the step where > >> we send the prod-mail we file a Bug of severity "serious" against the > >> package, requesting that the person is being removed from the > >> Uploaders/Maintainers-field. At the point where we orphan the packages, > >> and the person isn't removed from those fields, we just make an NMU to > >> enforce this. Don't forget to set these usertags: > To make sure packages don't end up with only inactive (co-)maintainers. > > If a package is well maintained it's perfectly ok to lower the > importance of the bug and fix the issue in the next upload... I agree with Nico here - I can see the use of such a bug but wouldn't be amused if people filed an RC bug against my package for something which is essentially a cleanup issue. Yes it can be lowered by the maintainer, but filing it at the right severity to begin with (I suggest minor) seems like a better idea to not cause friction. On Saturday 8 December 2007 18:39, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > I don't agree with this. In a team, it's difficult to notice that one > member disappeared. And lack of involvement in one package doesn't mean > being completely MIA. As co-maintainer I wouldn't want to remove someone > if I'm not sure that he won't come back. A "minor" bug would have just the same effect that you want here. "serious" is not appropriate (see the description of that severity[1]) and doing an NMU for an otherwise active team is even less appropriate for this kind of issue. Filing a bug at a reasonable severity: good NMUing if the package seems otherwise unmaintained: good Filing a bug at release critical severity: not good NMUing if the package seems not otherwise unmaintained: not good Thijs [1] "is a severe violation of Debian policy (roughly, it violates a must or required directive), or, in the package maintainer's opinion, makes the package unsuitable for release."
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