On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 11:08:15AM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > > > Other than all the above, I have read interesting ideas on objective > > criteria > > in Steve McIntyre's report. Basically my point of this e-mail is that I > > welcome a debate on changing the MIA and NMU procedures to introduce > > objective > > criteria with short periods of time so that it becomes easier for anyone > > interested to improve quality of packages in Debian. > > Taking over a package is not an NMU nor is it waiting for someone to be > completely MIA. An NMU is usually once for fixing bugs (so not updating > packaging, not moving it to another patch or revision control system and > the like). Being MIA is usually not even answering mails or IRC pings in > general for an extended time frame which is quite a bit further than not > caring about one package IMHO. Currently the MIA Team does not orphan > individual packages unless the maintainer agrees, so usually it's > orphaning all or none.
Your point seems to be that we currently don't have a procedure for orphaning individual packages. > > The normal procedure to take over a package should be consent with the > maintainer or the formal adoption procedure. Though I think it would be > good to also be able to take over a package without the need to declare > the maintainer MIA. One month without reply to an intent to take over > mail (or should that be bug report?) seems fair when the maintainer is > not on VAC (which usually is private), so I guess the devil is in the > details. You seem to propose a light-weighted procedure to mark individual unmaintained packages as orphaned (so that anyone interested can take over maintenance). I propose the following for orphaning individual packages : Anyone can mark a package as orphaned after the following steps have been completed : Someone submits an "intent to orphan" in the bts with an explanation of why he/she thinks that the package needs a new maintainer. Anyone can submit this "intent to orphan". At least three DD's second the "intent to orphan" on the same bug report with a cc to the maintainer. And the maintainer does not respond within one month after the the third second. Comments ? Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120721113915.ga10...@master.debian.org