On Tuesday, October 23, 2012 05:19:37 PM Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2012-10-23, Lucas Nussbaum <lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Here is an attempt at summarizing & building a proposal out of the > > "Hijacking^W^W^W^W^W^WSalvaging packages for fun and profit: A proposal" > > thread that was started at [1]. > > Some years ago, people used a much simpler process. Why complicate > matters? > > 1) report a bug 'should this package be orphaned?' against the package > with a more or less defalut templated text and a serious severity > 2) sleep 4*7*24*3600 > 3) if bug silent, orphan it (and maybe adopt it) > > For a quite common thing to do, this is just drowning it in bureaucracy. > > Taking over unmaintained packages should not be hard. We need people to > do it. We need people to do it more than they do today. We need to make > it easy.
This seems a lot simpler to me. It also avoids voting on the quality of a maintainers packages, which is what I don't like about Lucas' proposal. +1 Scott K -- 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/1462821.AEbOLXoYyu@scott-latitude-e6320
