On 10/27/2012 04:47 AM, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
For example if package is not maintained for years we can certainly wait for a month or two before orphaning even though there may be no need to wait that long.
This unfortunately cannot be set as a rule. Sometimes, a package that was left unmaintained for a long time becomes a piece of something else, maybe because it's a dependency of a new package, and needs to be taken care of, and that's exactly when you will want to have a quick adoption of the package, in order to not waste some maintainer / DD time and/or delaying the achievement/upload of a project/package.
On 10/27/2012 04:47 AM, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
Michael Gilbert's proposal to start salvaging with NMUs makes more sense as it allows to proceed gently and demonstrate motivation and willingness to work on the package. From non-DD prospective couple of successful NMUs will confirm salvaging intent and capacity better than random ACKs.
I also think it would be a good thing if there was some kind of work showing the intent of the adopter, on top of the ACK. This could be in the form of a patch sent to the BTS, or some NMU. But I don't think this should be a hard requirement. I agree with others saying that we should trust that DDs will do the right thing. Cheers, Thomas -- 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/508d3165.5020...@debian.org
