Re: Hijacking^W^W^W^W^W^WSalvaging packages for fun and profit: A proposal
Stefano Zacchiroli writes ("Re: Hijacking^W^W^W^W^W^WSalvaging packages for fun and profit: A proposal"):
> I just meant that if we encourage to post seconds (which are in fact
> just a form of review of the intention to orphan) on a list such as -qa
> (which is more specific-purpose than, say, -devel), we might end up
> attracting there people who have an interest in doing this sort of
> package quality review. That sounds like a useful side-effect to me. But
> I'm still unsure about the benefits of the seconds principle, though.
It seems to me that when salvaging works well, the existing maintainer
is probably at least semi-active but is embarrassed about the
package or somehow otherwise blocked from working on it.
A successful salvage is then a quiet operation where we take this
burden from the maintainer and they don't have to feel too bad about
it. Hopefully the maintainer, after a few months at least, will be
actually relieved.
I don't think seconding fits well into this. It would encourage
dogpiles and noise. If it achieves anything it will be to make the
maintainer feel worse and perhaps make them stubborn.
Ian.
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