Re: How to report a maintainer missing in action?
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002 14:54:44 +0100
Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> wrote:
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ------------- developers-reference.sgml.old Tue Feb 19 23:43:24 2002
> > +++ developers-reference.sgml Tue Feb 19 23:43:01 2002
>
> Good thinking, BTW.
thanks for the corrections, Joy, I'm not a notive english speaker, I'm
still learning from you guys =)
so:
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--- developers-reference.sgml.old Tue Feb 19 23:43:24 2002
+++ developers-reference.sgml Wed Feb 20 16:29:56 2002
@@ -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 unreachable maintainers
+ <p>
+If you notice that a package is lacking maintenance, you should
+make sure the maintainer is active and will continue to work on
+their packages. Try contacting them yourself. If you do not get
+a reply after a few weeks 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 whether the maintainer is on vacation and when they were
+last seen. Collect any important package names they maintain 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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any other point? I am still not convinced about that last sentence....
is it good enough or should we specify this 'whatever is needed'?
if people find this is good enough I'll file a wishlist on developers-reference
[]s!
--
Gustavo Noronha Silva - kov <http://www.metainfo.org/kov>
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