Re: jove Package - Maintainer does not respond.
Hallo! Du (Martin Michlmayr) hast geschrieben:
>* Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org> [20001211 20:56]:
>> If he doesn't answer till this date, you should take then his
>> package over, but that's only my suggestion how to deal with the
>> situation as we have no standard guide for this problems.
I'm not a Debian-Developer (yet, i've applied) so i think i can't take
it over (yet). The guy who 'maintains' the package i want, hasn't
touched the Bugreports since 11 Nov 98. (he has fixed some bugs that
date, but didn't close the Reports, i've done that 3 or 4 days ago.)
He is also responsible for the mailx-package, which hasn't been
touched by him since mid-98, although there were appearing some
security-related bugs, which had to be fixed through NMUs.
>I think some guidelines should be developed. This question came up
>quite often recently. I had the same problem a month ago, and there
>was a posting to debian-mentors today asking the same...
(ok, i'm new to these interna-lists of Debian, maybe my thoughts are
thought many times on some lists, and also dumped into ground, for
some good reasons. If this is the case, it would be nice if someone
points me to the thread(s) in the mailarchive, so i can read it, and
find out why i'm stupid ;-)
Maybe there should be a 'ping mechanism' which sends every quarter of
the year a mail-ping to a non-active Debian-Member (someone who
doesn't write to lists, and hasn't open bugs to deal with) to which
he/she has to respond.
Also there should be a rule that developers have to add a response
to an open bug within a month... (i'm not that happy with the bug-db,
as it seems that often bugs won't be closed, but fixed, or they're
simply ignored (maybe due to some disappeared developer.))
If there is no reaction the package(s) should be transfered to the
QA-Group and marked 'Orphaned', because he can't (or don't want) match
the quality demands of Debian.
It is not that easy to become a Debian-Maintainer, and i think that
those high expectations shouldn't end the day when one gets through
it. I think Debian should also throw people out, if they can't (or
want) match the Debian demands anymore. (Those people, who haven't got
the time anymore, and give their responsibilities away to others are
not meant here)
comments? flames?
Cord
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