Rogério Brito wrote: > In my very humble and uninformed opinion, some maintainers should really > give up maintaining their packages or should try to get other people as > co-maintainers, if they lack the time to fix their packages. :-( > > If they applied to the project, then, they committed themselves to some > responsibilities and even though the project is mostly driven by > volunteers, if they can't keep up with their committments, then they should > politely be asked to give space to other people. And I can tell you that > there are other people interested in *working* for the project. > By my count, there are already many maintainers that have done so with their packages: http://www.nl.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa_bypackage http://www.nl.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned http://www.nl.debian.org/devel/wnpp/being_adopted I understand that not all are represented however. I have seen cases of maintainers that have packages with may bug reports, without any indication of an intent to fix them. They don't respond to pings from other developers or users. Then when someone NMUs their package to fix a bug or something like that, they immediately revert the changes. Sometimes it is kind of sad. Becuase the users are the ones that end up suffering thorugh old and buggy versions of software. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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