Bug#681833: developers-reference: please document a package salvaging process
Michael Gilbert <mgilbert@debian.org> writes:
> Just to give you an idea of what I'm thinking long-term: salvaging will
> one day obsolete MIA. If maintainership changes become self-directed,
> then ultimately there is no longer a need for a MIA team to pester
> people (which no one wants to do anyway). MIA'ness will be clear once
> new maintainers have taken over all of the old maintainer's packages and
> removed his name. That would then give MIA the go-ahead to say hey, all
> of your packages have been salvaged, we'll be closing your account soon
> if no action is taken.
The other half of the replacement for MIA would be the periodic WAYT pings
(hopefully that's still a plan to do that ongoing) to confirm that people
still want to be active in the project. Just because someone has no
packages doesn't mean that we should close their account; they're still
entitled to vote for as long as they wish, IMO.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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