Re: How to report a maintainer missing in action?
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 11:44:56PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva 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?:
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --- developers-reference.sgml.old Tue Feb 19 23:43:24 2002
> +++ developers-reference.sgml Tue Feb 19 23:43:01 2002
Good thinking, BTW.
> @@ -364,6 +364,20 @@
> 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
How about "Dealing with unreachable 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
s,him/her,them,
> +a reply in some days you should collect all useful information about
s,in some days,after a few days (weeks),
> +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
s,wheter,whether,; s,he/she was,they were,
> +last seen. Collect any important package names he/she maintains and
s,he/she maintains,they maintain,
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