(Ccing the current maintainers of mumble) Hi, On 17/03/14 at 18:21 -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: > Greetings. > > I'm looking to adopt the mumble package after a long period of inactivity from > the current maintainer (last activity 2012-11-12 in #691535), who is not > totally MIA but whom has not responded to contact attempts. Last year the > package fell out of Testing and I was eventually contacted by others to help. > With some difficulty in finding a sponsor I was able to upload a newer version > in late November, then uploaded fixes for two CVEs that were found later. > Unfortunately the latest version in the Vcs contains these CVEs (and also has > its base communication codec removed). > > After some discussion on [debian-devel] I decided to file an ITA (#739997) to > offer to adopt the package, but I haven't gotten any response in 3 weeks. > I've also tried to contact the maintainer via IRC in #debian-devel but haven't > gotten a response there either. > > Since filing the ITA I've found that there have been several discussions in > [debian-devel] on this issue [1] [2] and a common suggestion seems to be > getting some kind of group consensus for adopting the package rather than an > individual developer making that decision, and specifically suggesting seeking > input from [debian-qa] for this purpose. > > So is it okay for me to adopt the package? I looked at the state of the package. There's nothing that requires immediate action, but there are a number of things that could be improved (there's a new upstream release available, 1.2.5, since 2014-02-05; there are several important bugs with no comment from the maintainer). Given that you seem to have been doing the maintenance work lately, I personally have no objection to you adopting the package. To move forward, I propose giving the maintainers until 2014-04-01 to object. In the meantime, it would be nice if you could work on the known open issues -- that's work that will be useful whether you adopt the package, become part of a maintenance team, or just hand over the patches to the current maintainers. Lucas
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