On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 02:49:23AM +0000, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> [2004-03-04 21:21]:
> > People who have simply become inactive should be treated as much
> > like those who have resigned as possible. We should thank them for
> > their efforts, put them on the emeritus keyring, and find new
> > maintainers for their packages.
> I disagree with this. I think that maintainers who neglect their
> duties and don't follow documented procedures (orphan their packages,
> inform the keyring maintainer that they are leaving the project [1])
> should not be treated the same as maintainers who leave the project
> properly.
Then how should they be treated, exactly?
Cheers,
aj
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