On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 05:17:10PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 10/25/2012 02:48 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: > >On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 01:57:12AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > >>I remember when I started a thread about 6 months ago, > >>willing to take over maintainership of a clearly unmaintained > >>package (since then, all other packages of this maintainer > >>have been orphaned...). It (unwillingly) created a huge thread > >>about when and when not taking over a maintainer, with some > >>of the thread participant having no clue what so ever if the old > >>maintainer was still alive or not. > >Do you also remember WHY it created a huge thread? > >It created a huge thread BECAUSE YOU HAD PROPOSED TO TREAT SILENCE AS > >ASSENT. > What? Could you explain what I did? Silence from who? The old maintainer? > Other DDs reading the list? "So, if nobody objects within the next following 2 or 3 days, and if Jack doesn't show up and oppose to this procedure, we'll do that." https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/05/msg01362.html That's equating silence with assent. Perhaps that wasn't what you intended, but that is what you said, and that was a factor in the resulting blow-up. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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