Re: Work-needing packages report for Feb 23, 2001
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Brian Russo wrote:
>...
> > It's either that or ask for an override, which means that when and if
> > the package gets adopted you have to ask for a change again, which puts
> > more work on the shoulders of ftp admins. I rather put more work on
> > the shoulders of a machine. What is that? That I'm going to break
> > packages by doing this? That they won't autobuild anymore? See
> > closing comment on previous paragraph.
>
> Agreed that it's far from ideal (a mess).
>
> How about the following Best Practice then:
>
> For Orphaned WNPP packages;
> After a period of 28 days they should have an upload made to set
> the maintainer to Debian QA.
That means you want to put work on some people to get the bug reports to
Debian QA where they belong to. I think it's the best when the old
maintainer does an immediate upload with the maintainer set to Debian QA.
>...
> In ALL cases, discretion should be used. The goal is not to
What do you mean with "discretion should be used"??? I always thought
Debian was an open project and that "We Won't Hide Problems"?
> systematically exterminate wnpp packages from the archive simply
> because they're declared wnpp, but rather to have some reasonable
> process of having wnpp packages slip away.
>
> Please comment on what you think would be better lengths of time.
> I am not proposing an automatic removal system, I want to emphasize
> this!
>
> But I do think that if we can all agree on guidelines for
> handling WNPP packages we might be able to deal with them more
> efficiently. ITA's for example, should expire. Lots of people don't
> adopt things because "some other guy is doing it" when in fact he has
> forgotten/abandoned it long ago.
Please always remember your "I am not proposing an automatic removal
system": The guidelines are only guidelines for people that look into a
WNPP bug before they do an action.
> - brian.
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Adrian
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