Re: Handling of sponsorship requests
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 09:43:30AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 6:06 AM, Patrick Matthäi wrote:
>
> > a) How should we handle requests, where the maintainer *may* be MIA?
> > Just for an example #658114 - a realy simple question is unanswered for
> > about 6 months!
> > IMO they should be pinged one more time, maybe they have overseen the
> > response, but if I want to see a package in Debian, I would track it, so
> > I also would see such "maintainers" as possible MIA candidates just
> > after their first uploads. So on they may be not qualified to maintain
> > packages/bugs within a distribution.
>
> What the other Paul said.
>
> Also, since he is maintaining existing packages maybe he should be
> reported to the MIA team as per usual MIA procedures?
>
> http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=mateusz.kijowski%40gmail.com
I see no reason to report this person to the MIA database. Do you ?
In general I agree that when discovering abandoned requests for sponsorship it
is a good idea to have a look at the DDPO page and to follow the MIA procedure
for maintainers missing in action.
Regards,
Bart Martens
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