Re: Freecad is looking for new maintainers
Hi,
thanks all for opinions. I should probably do it and orphan
packages, where the uploader-list is empty... Not much of
them but still.
With freecad I will wait till the answer from Adam or when his
status will be changed to MIA.
Best regards
Anton
2018-05-24 12:10 GMT+02:00 Graham Inggs <ginggs@debian.org>:
> Hi Adam
>
> Please let us know if you intend maintaining the freecad package going
> forward.
>
> Teemu and Anton will no longer be maintaining it (see below), so if you
> won't be maintaining it, I agree with Sébastien that orphaning the package
> would better match reality.
>
> Regards
> Graham
>
>
> On 23/05/2018 23:41, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
>>
>> Hi Anton,
>>
>> On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 11:17:35PM +0200, Anton Gladky wrote:
>>
>>> freecad_0.16.6712+dfsg1-2 has just been uploaded and
>>> two of its maintainers (me and Teemu) decided not to maintain
>>> this package any more. Adam, which is currently the only
>>> one in "Uploaders"-field seems to be not active for a long time.
>>>
>>> I am not orphaning the package because it is team-maintained.
>>> But it would be good if somebody could take over the package.
>>
>>
>> IMO, it's better to orphan the package, to make it clear that it has no
>> active
>> maintainer. Otherwise that critical piece of information may go unnoticed
>> for a
>> long time by third parties, including potentially interested maintainers.
>> And
>> this doesn't prevent the future maintainer from keeping it in Debian
>> Science.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>>
>>
>
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