>>> Man thanks Boyuan for taking care about goldendict! >>> >>>> Dear mentors and Dmitry, >>>> >>>> * Add myself into uploaders list. (Hijacking package) >>> >>> As I learned on DebConf17'S we've have a (proposed) process for >>> this. Lets bring it to live and salvage the package as described here: >>> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/09/msg00654.html >>> >>> (please, involve the MIA team if you find neglected packages.) >>> >>> Thanks for caring about goldendict, >>> -- >>> tobi >> >> Wondering if there's any concensus on this topic. Replies in this thread >> shows >> there are still some disagreement on concrete actions of "Salvaging" >> packages. >> An article on Debian Wiki or email on debian-devel-announce would be much >> more >> convincing.
> We've had a discussion @DebConf17 (in the "if you love a package let it go" > BOF) > where this link was brought up by the audience as an possible solution to the > problem that some packages are quite neglected. AFAIR it was suggested that > we've give the process a try. > While I understand that you'd like some official announcement, we're not yet > there -- this will only happen once we've tried it serveral times :) > But the salvaing process will for sure generate less friction than a hijack. >> Besides, MIA Team is not the right option here; DDPO shows that the >> maintainer >> is still active on other packages. [2] > While the MIA team has power on cases like this, we also handle cases where > e.g > the maintainer has appearantly too much on his plate; at least we can get in > touch with the maintainer and indeed that helps quite often to find a > solution. > (Note that I am also MIA team member) >> Thanks, >> Boyuan Yang >> >> [2] https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?email=unera%40debian.org If You want to be a maintainer, feel free to add to uploader's list yourself . I uploaded the package if someone asked me or if I found some new interesting functions. So if You need to upload a new version, ping me, or adopt the package if you consider my work unsatisfactory :) -- . ''`. Dmitry E. Oboukhov <un...@debian.org> : :’ : `. `~’ GPG key: 4096R/08EEA756 2014-08-30 `- 71ED ACFC 6801 0DD9 1AD1 9B86 8D1F 969A 08EE A756
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