Re: Mechanism for removing developers

[Hartmut Koptein <koptein@et-inf.fho-emden.de>]

> I view both of these as developers failing to live up to the responsibility
> that they accepted when they accepted maintainorship of packages.  The
> second example is particularly bad; the developer could at least reply to
> the person submitting a bug.
> 
> In light if this, I ask if we have some mechanism for either removing a

Not removing ... could we set these developers to an status 'hold' or a similary
one? 

> developer from Debian if they have serious lack of responsibility issues, or
> at least of declaring their packages orphaned and up for adoption.  If not,

If the developer is on 'hold' all his packages should then be freed for adoption.

MfG,

  Hartmut