Hi :) as discussed some minutes ago in the BOF I start the thread here now about the MIA stuff in Debian. One point was defining fixed intervals of pinging a maintainer and how we could automate them, my proposal would be the following: X-MIA-Summary: nice Then wait 30 days X-MIA-Summary: prod Then wait 30 days X-MIA-Summary: last-warning Then wait 60 days -> Orphan all packages and wait for 90 days again X-MIA-Summary: needs-wat (Joerg (aka DAM) will then take care about it and the work for the MIA-Team is over) The initial contact and the last-warning should be written by hand and be nice - the other mails can be templates. Please help writing templates on [0] What about the question "What doing with co-maintained packages?": If someone is tagged as "prod", then we submit a bug (Severity: normal) for the package that the person should be removed from the Uploaders: field, if this won't happen in 30 days - NMU to fix it. Joerg also mentioned in the BOF that he needs help to process the results of the WAT-runs. There are several solutions, in my opinion it would be the easiest if we could add the Mail-Address wat@qa.debian.org (and set a Reply-To header in the WAT-Mails), the mbox should be publically accessible for the MIA-Team on Merkel. (By the way - "mia" is still no group, it's just "qa" and it seems to be not so easy to become a member of this group, so, what about adding a extre-group for MIA?) There was also the problem that tracking as a MIA-Team-Member isn't so easy - I think I have a little workaround for it: Just add a "X-MIA-Tracker" header to the mails (in addition to the X-MIA-Summary) in the following form: X-MIA-Tracker: 20071231 mario@debian.org Then a notification will be sent to mario@debian.org on 31.12.2007. Please note that the notifications need to be removed by hand with the mia-tracker script - I will add some documentation for it to the README file soon. [0] http://wiki.debian.org/MIA-Transition (As soon as the discussion is over here and there are no open questions - we will send a mail to debian-devel-announce) Thank you in advance for your comments... Regards, -- .''`. Mario Iseli <mario@debian.org> : :' : Debian GNU/Linux developer `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system
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