Re: Bug#573745: No response from official maintainer
Hello,
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 21:57, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
> Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org> writes:
>
>> Sadly, this absence of reply is not something surprising me (and others
>> I think, as also Paul discovered[0]). This lack of communication,
>> interest and the overcommitting of Matthias is what has made us call to
>> the Technical Committee about Python maintainership. Given this is a
>> perfect example of what we wanted to show, I add the TC bug in CC, to
>> also show that situation is still going on.
>
>> [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2010/09/msg00018.html
>
> A maintainer not responding quickly to a request to take over a package
> they've uploaded themselves as recently as this February, to upload a new
> major version of a package without any RC bugs, during a release freeze
> (!), is not a particularly compelling example of malfeasance.
>
>> Given Romain's reply is 10 days old, given Paul already pinged doko on
>> IRC, given you contacted several times Matthias (and since several
>> months)
>
> The first contact about 0.8 recorded in the BTS is August 1st, which is
> not several months (although is before the official beginning of the
> freeze).
I think I misread some emails, and so Andriy only contacted (publicly)
on August and not since April as I first understood. So clearly it's
not "several months" but "more than one month" only.
>> and none of these generated any reply, I think you can go on and take
>> over the package.
>
> I don't agree. The new version is not eligible for squeeze regardless,
> and it seems to me like there's some time to ask Matthias what his
> intentions are concerning the package, whether he is interested in
> transferring it to a new maintainer, etc.
Given the above yes, I concur it's not yet the time for maintainer
switch. Now, let's wait for a reply.
Regards,
--
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
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