Re: mumble: adopt package without maintainer response?
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On 3/18/14, 6:59 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> (Ccing the current maintainers of mumble)
>
> Hi,
>
> On 17/03/14 at 18:21 -0400, Chris Knadle wrote:
>> Greetings.
>>
>> I'm looking to adopt the mumble package after a long period of
inactivity from
>> the current maintainer (last activity 2012-11-12 in #691535), who is not
>> totally MIA but whom has not responded to contact attempts. Last
year the
>> package fell out of Testing and I was eventually contacted by others
to help.
>> With some difficulty in finding a sponsor I was able to upload a
newer version
>> in late November, then uploaded fixes for two CVEs that were found
later.
>> Unfortunately the latest version in the Vcs contains these CVEs (and
also has
>> its base communication codec removed).
>>
>> After some discussion on [debian-devel] I decided to file an ITA
(#739997) to
>> offer to adopt the package, but I haven't gotten any response in 3
weeks.
>> I've also tried to contact the maintainer via IRC in #debian-devel
but haven't
>> gotten a response there either.
>>
>> Since filing the ITA I've found that there have been several
discussions in
>> [debian-devel] on this issue [1] [2] and a common suggestion seems to be
>> getting some kind of group consensus for adopting the package rather
than an
>> individual developer making that decision, and specifically
suggesting seeking
>> input from [debian-qa] for this purpose.
>>
>> So is it okay for me to adopt the package?
>
> I looked at the state of the package. There's nothing that requires
> immediate action, but there are a number of things that could be
> improved (there's a new upstream release available, 1.2.5, since
> 2014-02-05; there are several important bugs with no comment from the
> maintainer).
>
> Given that you seem to have been doing the maintenance work lately, I
> personally have no objection to you adopting the package.
>
> To move forward, I propose giving the maintainers until 2014-04-01 to
> object.
>
> In the meantime, it would be nice if you could work on the known
> open issues -- that's work that will be useful whether you adopt the
> package, become part of a maintenance team, or just hand over the
> patches to the current maintainers.
>
> Lucas
Hi,
I've not done any work on the Mumble package in a long time. It would
make me very happy if the package is maintained and active, as I feel a
certain amount of guilt for not working on it.
- - Thorvald
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