[Russ Allbery] > Also, I think this is a little silly for small packages. My > experience with this sort of volunteer work in other areas is that > if one person does nearly all the work on a regular basis, you're > not gaining that much by having a backup. The person who is > theoretically the backup isn't up to speed on the package anyway and > is going to be starting roughly as cold as any other random person > out there.
Did you miss the point that a package need to rot quite a long time before packages are taken out of the hands of a missing or useless maintainer? If there is a co-maintainer, he will most likely not wait that long before he continue maintenance of the package. You seem to be talking about a "co-maintainer" whose entire responsibility is to be listed in the uploaders field, while I talk about co-maintainers which have expressed interest in actually maintaining a package. The latter are quite likely to be able to take over when the primary maintainer us unable to keep up with his tasks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]