Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hi folks,
I've been maintaining doc-linux for nearly two years now. While I'm satisfied that it's in a much better state than when I took it on, during that time it's consumed pretty much a solid day or two of effort every month, and I'm now getting busy enough that retrieving that day or two for other projects would be very welcome. Furthermore, the whole non-free split and GFDL issues have been a source of angst for quite a while, and I haven't really had the time required to chase up document authors about the huge pile of forwarded bugs. I'm therefore looking for a new primary maintainer. I originally took the package on (some might say hijacked ...) because it was Priority: standard, unmaintained, and broken, so I am *not* orphaning it; I'd like to know that the new primary maintainer has the commitment required to make sure it doesn't end up that way again, and in fact I'd rather like to stay on as a backup or co-maintainer for a while. I have a Subversion repository for the last few months' worth of packaging which should be moved somewhere more public and used. Anyone taking this on should be willing to deal with legal issues in a way that both satisfies debian-legal and doesn't infuriate members of the Linux Documentation Project, which is not always an easy task. You should also have the energy to ping authors about forwarded bugs, and ideally eventually let the LDP know when some of them don't respond and new maintainers for those documents need to be found. The ability to make the build system less mad would probably be good too. :) David Harris has expressed an interest in this job, and I've talked to him about it on IRC, so if he still wants it he's welcome. If anyone else is interested, then contact me: a small team would be a good idea anyway. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]