Re: Should we try to draw more attention on ITAs waiting for sponsorship (with testing removal) ?
Hi,
On 30/01/14 at 13:51 +0100, Olivier Berger wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm not sure this is really a problem we should address. Sorry if I'm
> overlooking details.
>
> I suspect we have quite a few orphaned old packages still in testing,
> for which an ITA (Intent to Adopt) has been offered by a non DD, which
> is waiting for sponsorship. Typically, some of these potential
> maintainers may be active users or upstream maintainers.
>
> But who cares ?
>
> If such package are getting removed from testing (re. new release policy
> experiment), maybe that would draw more attention to these pending
> sponsorship requests (provided that DDs using them, or "educated" users are indeed
> notified of the testing removal), and help bring back updated packages
> and new maintainers in the loop ?
>
> I'm not sure we can back this discussion by figures of such pending
> sponsorship requests, or if that could be counterproductive in the
> end. Maybe testing removals isn't the best way to encourage more
> mentoring and sponsorship (I'm thinking of the Mentoring of the Month
> experiment in Debian-med that Andreas presented at the Paris Mini
> Debconf recently, for instance).
> I myself isn't very motivated to sponsor packages which I don't
> use... but maybe I'm not noticing at all (or didn't read how-can-i-help
> messages ;-).
In order to help noticing such RFSs, how-can-i-help is now listing them
(in version 4, uploading a couple minutes ago):
| New packages waiting for sponsorship (reviews/tests are also useful):
| - hwinfo - http://bugs.debian.org/733578 - RFS: hwinfo/21.0-1 [ITA] -- Hardware identification system
(and how-can-i-help already lists orphaned, RFA, ITA, RFH packages, bugs tagged
'gift', packages removed from testing, and packages going to be removed from
testing soon).
Lucas
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