Bug#739997: ITAs are not the proper way for handling MIA maintainers
On Sunday, March 02, 2014 21:24:04 Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> please don't abuse ITA bugs for trying to steal packages from people
> whom you suspect to be MIA.
>
> Section 7.4. of the Developer's Reference Team descripes the proper
> procedure.
I emailed the MIA team about this situation back on November 11 2013 and have
not heard back from them. However as you've stated, Ron is not MIA.
> It is also very bad for Debian as a whole when only one package of a
> MIA maintainer gets adopted, and the others stay "maintained" by a MIA
> maintainer instead of being properly orphaned.
>
> In this specific case, Ron is quite active on #debian-devel so you
> shouldn't have problems discussing that with him.
When you get a chance, let me know Ron's IRC screen name and when he might be
expected to be active in the channel.
-- Chris
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Chris Knadle
Chris.Knadle@coredump.us
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