Re: handling MIA co-maitainers?

[Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>]

Ana Guerrero wrote:
> 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.

Of course the MIA Team, who else? ;-)

> And well, if all the co-maintainers are MIA, nobody is going to remove nobody :)

That's when the MIA Team orphans the package...

Cheers

Luk