Re: Unread bug reports ?
* Camale?n <noelamac@gmail.com> [2011-06-25 11:09:40 +0000]:
> Which is fine... but in such cases there should be the figure of an
> ombudsman, the "glue" that acts when no one is in charge of a package- or
> that seems to be missing- that at least lets you know what is happening
> and what's the bug status. With accurate information, you can quietly
> wait or go upstream with the bug. You have more choices.
>
> Not news is not good news is this case.
Greetings!
FreeBSD's ports system has something similar to what your talking
about here. The life of a port first depends on it's Maintainer, if
s/he quits, gives up, gets bored, what ever, the port then defaults
to Ports system maintainers where they, collectively decide one of
the following:
a) absorb the port and continue support
b) find a new maintainer
c) drop support and move on
This is all decided by the Ports System committee and doesn't happen
over night. There is ample time for people to be properly
notified and for them to find a new maintainer amungst themselves or
elsewhere or for people to move off/away from that port.
Just my $0.02 :D
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