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Re: Reaching out to maintainers of non-team-maintained packages



On Sat, 12 Aug 2017 20:43:09 -0400, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:

> One proposal was to use wishlist bugs for
> this. This has the disadvantage of spamming maintainers with
> many packages, though, so instead, in such cases, we could mail the
> maintainer directly (though there is a definite advantage to using bugs
> to track responses).

I think for undermaintained package a bug might be nice for
trackability, and for others a plain invitation mail.
But this might be too much work, so please go ahead as you see fit.
 
> I find these metrics interesting, but on the other hand I am not
> inclined to use them to filter the messages or particularly target
> any packages in particular, just sent a friendly email to each of the
> maintainers. We could follow up individually with individual
> packages/bugs if appropriate.

Fine with me, and thanks for your work!
 

Cheers,
gregor

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