On 05/31/2012 03:03 AM, Steve Langasek wrote:
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A hijack is, by definition, a declaration by the hijacker that
they believe they are not answerable to the project's processes for
how package maintenance is decided. It is antisocial vigilanteism
and it is not acceptable.
So asking people who want to work actively on a package to wait for
months or years because it is not compltely clear if the original
maintainer is MIA or not, or just nobody had the time to look at the
MIA status, is social? It does not help Debian at all.
As a sitting member of the Technical Committee, I encourage anyone
who sees a package being hijacked to immediately bring it to the
attention of the TC. I will without hesitation vote to have the
hijacker barred from being made the maintainer of the package.
From a member of the TC I would expect some useful input on how to
fix
an obviously broken (since years!) process instead of trying to
forcibly trying to choke down people who actively want to improve
Debian. Welcome to the dictatorship of the TC.