On 12-05-31 at 09:22am, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 05/30/2012 11:11 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > It is better to have a well maintained package than to ait for > somebody who collected a number of NMUs and doesn't react to bug > reports for years. I perfectly agree. But it is better to have responsibly maintained packages having newest upstream code packaged at any cost. ...and I find both of our comparisons above too simplistic! On 12-05-31 at 09:22am, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 05/30/2012 11:11 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > I am not at all surprised that this is yet another sponsored package > > bit-rotting. Personally I never liked how we allow maintainer to be > > someone not in Debian: There is too great a risk of drive-by > > contributions :-( > > You and a lot of others fail to realize that the *SPONSOR* is > responsible for the package. Huh?!? What does "Maintainer:" mean if not the entity being responsible for, well, maintaining?!? > If the maintainer fails to keep the package in a useful shape it is > the sponsor's responsibility to do so. And last but not least it > should be the sponsor's decision to orphan a package if the maintainer > is MIA or not doing his job properly. It is also the sponsors > responsibility to try to figure out if a maintainer is willing to do > his job longer than one upload before sponsoring a package at all. I have heard before the argument of the sponsor having responsibility, but in reality I have *never* heard of sponsors actually being held responsible for anything but the concrete upload of a specific packaging release. ...which leads to my concern for high risk of drive-by contributions! > > ...but we should not improve quality of packages by relaxing the > > respect of the maintainer. We should hold maintainers responsible to > > their actions - and that is only really possible to do with "social > > pride" which is lacking when maintainer is outside of Debian. > > Yet another job for the sponsor. How can sponsor help create social pride (or social pressure if doing a lousy job)? - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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