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Re: Taking over triangle into Debian Science team maintenance



On 19 Apr 2018, at 09:52, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:
> 
> Hi MIA team,
> 
> I've got this response
> 
> 
> This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
> 
> A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
> recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
> 
>  hazelsct@lyre.mit.edu
>    retry timeout exceeded
> 
> 
> for two mails I've sent to
> 
>    "Adam C. Powell, IV" <hazelsct@debian.org>
> 
> today (one is quoted below to Debian Science list).
> 
> The team statistics I'm running indicate that Adam was very active in
> the team but is MIA since 2013:
> 
>  Contributions to mailing lists until 2012
> 
>   http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_debian-science-maintainers.png
>   http://blends.debian.net/liststats/authorstat_debian-science.png
> 
>  Last bugs fixed in 2013
> 
>   http://blends.debian.net/liststats/bugs_debian-science.png
> 
>  Last commits to VCS in 2012
> 
>   http://blends.debian.net/liststats/commitstat_debian-science.png
> 
>  Last uploads in 2012
> 
>   http://blends.debian.net/liststats/commitstat_debian-science.png
> 
> (I need to think about how bugs were fixed in 2013 if the last
> upload was in 2012 but may be that's connected to the fact when
> a bug is considered "fixed")
> 
> So inside the Debian Science team there was no visible activity since
> five years.

/srv/qa.debian.org/mia/mia-query hazelsct will tell you that contact was last
received on 2017-10-07 using the address hazelsct@gmail.com (Cc'ed).

Regards,
James

> On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 10:31:58AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
>> Hi Adam,
>> 
>> when discussing the validity of maintainer names containing a comma as
>> separator I stumbled upon the package triangle which is maintained by
>> you not as a Debian Science team maintained package (as you did as a
>> very active Debian Science team member some time ago).  I'm just
>> wondering whether this is intentional or just historic since the package
>> was not uploaded since 2009.
>> 
>> My suggestion would be that we put triangle to salsa.debian.org under
>> Debian Science team maintenance.  At least bug #620432 seems easy to
>> squash and I would volunteer to do this in a team upload.  I also think
>> that we could apply the suggested patch in #643778.
>> 
>> Adam, since I have not heard from you since a long time we need to
>> assume that you moved on and are not very active in Debian any more.  If
>> I do not hear from you I will contact the MIA team.  If they confirm
>> that you are not active any more I'll proceed as suggested above (but
>> for sure a confirmation of yours would make me more happy).  Please
>> also state whether your ID should be removed or replaced from Uploaders
>> fields of Debian Science packages or whether you intend to come back in
>> the future.
>> 
>> Kind regards
>> 
>>      Andreas.
>> 
>> -- 
>> http://fam-tille.de
>> 
>> 
> 
> -- 
> http://fam-tille.de
> 


James


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