Re: handling MIA co-maitainers?
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 07:32:34AM +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
> 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.
>
Yes, sure, this is always the first option, but it does not work. Some people "fear"
remove their co-maintainters to avoid problems, so maybe with a "request" of the MIA
team this would be different.
And well, if all the co-maintainers are MIA, nobody is going to remove nobody :)
Ana
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