Re: handling MIA co-maitainers?

[Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>]

Ana Guerrero wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> what is the best way to handle people who are clearly MIA, but they still
> appear like co-maintaining packages? I'm sure we even have cases of packages
> apparently co-maintained but with 2 MIA maintainers..
>
> For example:
> http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=carlos@pemas.net
>
> I was about to mail this guy to report him MIA, I NMUed his 2 no co-maintained
> packages to fix a trivial bug a couple of weeks ago, but even if we orphan
> those 2 packages he'll still appear in the package he is supposed to be
> co-maintaining.
>
>
> So to get him removed from the uploaders file of those packages, what is the
> way to go? I only can think in filing a wishlist bug against the package, but
> maybe there is a better way to handle this.

We normally handle it by asking the maintainer/co-maintainer to remove 
the MIA person.

> Another example seems to be:
>
> http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=philippedeswert@scarlet.be
>
> codehelp seems to be carring alone all the work in the gpe packages.

Philippe is sometimes helping, though codehelp is the DD who uploads the 
stuff.

Cheers

Luk