Re: Sponsor for TWiki package

[Bastian Kleineidam <calvin@debian.org>]

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Hi,

On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 02:29:28PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 08:36:15AM +1000, Sven Dowideit wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 	I made some updates the twiki package to the latest upstream release
> > (01Jan2003) about 2 months ago, and have since been trying to get the
> > current maintainer to upload the changes. 
> > 
> > Unfortuanatly I get the feeling that Mark is unavailable (due to time
> > constraints) so I would like to 'borrow' a debian developer as a
> > sponsor.
> > 
> 
> Did you ask Mark explicitely for adoption? Hijacking packages without
> notices is not a good practice.

Martin promised to do something about inactive developers. At least
we should have a guiding document (or a formal process) on how to
determine inactivity, eg. initial contact, waiting phase, hijacking.

Cheers,
  Bastian

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