Re: Adopt an abandoned ITP?
You could also offer to co-maintain...
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Guido van Steen
<vansteen@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Obviously, you should give the ITP/RFP bug author much more than a few
> days to respond... Have you mentioned your interest to the bug page?
> I would try to contact the bug author at least a few more times.
>
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Gergely Nagy <algernon@balabit.hu> wrote:
>> Mathias Ertl <mati@fsinf.at> writes:
>>
>>> There is a package I desperately want in Debian and there already is an ITP
>>> for it that is almost a year old. There wasn't any activity on it except that
>>> the author reverted the automatic ITP -> RFP conversion after 6 monts of
>>> inactivity. I did write to the bug-author a few days ago if he still intends
>>> to package it but haven't received a response yet.
>>>
>>> So in general: What is appropriate the procedure in adopting such a bug? I
>>> don't want to 'hijack' anything. How long should I wait for a response from
>>> the author? Should I file a new bug or change the owner of the old one?
>>
>> This largely depends on which ITP bug we're talking about, as there
>> might be good reasons the ITP is still pending. Without more
>> information, though, no reasonable suggestion can be made, in my
>> opinion.
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