Re: How to report a maintainer missing in action?
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 04:32:47PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
>
> + <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.
Add a <p> at this point.
> 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.
And perhaps here, too.
> 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'?
I'd leave it as it is.
> if people find this is good enough I'll file a wishlist on developers-reference
Oh, just commit it, I really don't think Adam will mind... OTOH if you don't
have commit rights to that tree, let me know and I will.
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