Re: What to do when a maintainer is blocking maintenance for stretch?
On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 06:45:43PM +0000, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
>...
> Also, a personal pledge to everybody who's reading this: please don't
> attach yourself to your packages like mussels on a rock. If you realize
> (or somebody else is making you realize) that you're doing a bad job on
> a package *and* there is a willing adopter, just give it up; or talk to
> the prospective adopter about some kind of collaboration, or something
> on that line.
And when there is no willing adopter available, an O or RFA bug against
wnpp is the way to find an adopter.
An orphaned package maintained by QA where everyone can just upload
without delay is better maintained than a package with an inactive
maintainer.
cu
Adrian
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of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
"Only a promise," Lao Er said.
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