Re: How to report a maintainer missing in action?
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 18:22:21 +0100
Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> wrote:
> fwiw, it's available at http://cvs.debian.org/mia/README?cvsroot=qa
> (Although I still think the procedure should be to mail -qa and someone
> there doing MIA stuff takes care of the rest.)
what do you think about this?:
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in order to catch up the backlog of bugs that you have (you can ask
for help on &email-debian-qa; or &email-debian-devel;).
+ <sect id="mia-qa">Dealing with Missing in Action (MIA) Maintainers
+ <p>
+If you notice that a package is lacking maintenance, you should
+make sure the maintainer is active and will continue his work on
+his packages. Try contacting him/her yourself. If you do not get
+a reply in some days you should collect all useful information about
+this maintainer. Start by logging in to the <url id="http://db.debian.org";
+name="Debian Developer's Database"> and doing a full search to
+check wheter the maintainer is on vacation and when he/she was
+last seen. Collect any important package names he/she maintains and
+any Release Critical bugs filled against them. Send all this information
+to &email-debian-qa, in order to let the QA people do whatever is
+needed.
+
<sect>Retiring Gracefully
<p>
If you choose to leave the Debian project, you should make sure you do
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