Bug#521488: Updating the localization-config Uploaders list
reopen 521488
thanks
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 02:19, Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> wrote:
> On Freitag, 27. März 2009, morph wrote:
>> Konstantinos Margaritis <markos@debian.org> has not been working on
>> the localization-config package for quite some time.
>
> Aeh, yeah, so what? I could tell you many packages, where one or two uploaders
> havent been active in a while...
That doesn't change the situation. Konstantinos is no more a DD, as
you can check on LDAP or db.d.o, so he can't be active with that
address on the package, hence the bug report.
If he was still active, he could have updated his address by now. And
the changelog confirms his last contribution was back in 2006.
Moreover, to address the second sentence, if you know of some
maintainer in a MIA state, you should notify mia@qa.d.o or if only not
working on a package, you can kindly ask them if they are still
interested in that package.
>> We are tracking their status in the MIA team and would like to ask you
>> to remove them from the Uploaders list of the package so we can close
>> that part of the file.
>
> Which part of which file?
file as in "collection of documents, files and information about the
maintainer status as tracked in MIA database": is that better for you?
> This sounds like a campaign for work with no real use to me,
Please don't judge people work without even inform what it's about.
> plus mass bug filing without coordination/discussion on debian-devel in advance, thus
> closing.
It's not a MBF: you can see like it because I tried to elaborate the
backlog we had in the mia tracking database, and we were (and for some
situation are) years later. Do you consider working in batch a bad
thing?
> Feel free to explain _and then_ maybe reopen. Thanks.
Done (both).
> Running mia-check on merkel now reveals to me that you marked him retired
> _today_.
I marked as "retired" just today because I elaborate his record today:
I noticed his has retired, I marked as such (so he won't appear
anymore in our reports) and open this bug.
I give *a lot* of time to reply to my pings, but here there's no reasons to.
> But you didnt tell this in this bug report, which you should have.
That's the only fair point you made so far: we need to improve the
template for such bugs. I'll do it, thanks for notice.
> Thus still closing. (Because I still dont think those mass bugs are
> appropriate nor sensible.) Has this procedure ever been discussing anyway?
mh? appropriate or sensible? If a person listed in
Maintainers/Uploaders field does not work on a package (as in this
case) we should remove it: what's the point in have fields listings
people responsible for package when they are not?
never discussed? did you try to google for it? with this query "mia
debian-devel-announce site:debian.org" I can find several results,
some are here listed:
- http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/beyond-pkging.html
- http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/12/msg00005.html
(and you're listed to the attendees of this meeting)
- http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/02/msg00003.html
- several others
Also there's the wiki pages at [1] so it seems a rather known area.
[1] http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/MIATeam
Hope I clarified the situation,
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