Re: old ITAs

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 09:57:00AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> There are a number of very old ITAs on the wnpp list.  Seems to me
> that we should contact the developers who posted the ITAs, and if they
> don't reconfirm, convert them to Os.
> 
> I'm happy to do the work.

Yes!

> However, two questions:
> 
>   How old an ITA should I poke at?  One year?  Six months?  Two weeks?

My intuition says about a month. Looking at the modtime of the .log file
on master is probably easier than looking at the misleading age of the
bug.

>   How long should I give an ITAer to respond before turning it to O?

Again, a month sounds like a reasonable period to me.

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]