Re: Mechanism for removing developers
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 09:33:19AM -0800, Darren Benham wrote:
> If the maintainer is still around -- if he's posting on the list or uploading
> that or other packages -- he's still here. There's nothing in policy against
> ignoring bugs.
There are two issues here.
1. There should be policy against ignoring bugs for an excessive amount of
time without good reason (eg, vacation)
2. Having that, there should be policy allowing the dismissal of people that
gratitiously violate policy.
>
> On 28-Jan-99 John Goerzen wrote:
> > Again, as I said in my message, I'm not proposing removing developers that
> > maintain packages with bugs, or packages with very old bugs. This case is
> > different. The developer has literally *ignored* bugs for over 700 or 800
> > days, depending on the bug. That's right -- no response to the submittor.
> > No evidence of any action to fix it. Nothing. Another case is where there
> > have been developers maintaining packages with release-critical bugs during
> > a freeze but have not even made any effort to fix them (I would be satisfied
> > by an effort of saying "I can't fix this, can anyone help?" to debian-devel)
> >
>
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