On Tuesday, March 18, 2014 14:59:56 Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > (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. Okay. > 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. I have a 1.2.5-245-g221a5d7 package created which Patrick Matthäi is helping me further improve, which would close #676880, #731003, and #740605. There are several other bugs I'm not able to replicate which my no longer apply to more recent versions of the package; I'll have a look at those after the preparations for 1.2.5-245 are complete. Thanks. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle Chris.Knadle@coredump.us
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