On Tuesday 01 April 2003 15:14, Bastian Kleineidam wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 02:29:28PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 08:36:15AM +1000, Sven Dowideit wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I made some updates the twiki package to the latest upstream release > > > (01Jan2003) about 2 months ago, and have since been trying to get the > > > current maintainer to upload the changes. > > > > > > Unfortuanatly I get the feeling that Mark is unavailable (due to time > > > constraints) so I would like to 'borrow' a debian developer as a > > > sponsor. > > > > Did you ask Mark explicitely for adoption? Hijacking packages without > > notices is not a good practice. > > Martin promised to do something about inactive developers. At least > we should have a guiding document (or a formal process) on how to > determine inactivity, eg. initial contact, waiting phase, hijacking.
The first step for hijacking a package would be NMU, and all this initial contact, waiting phase, etc. is described in section 5.11.3 of Debian Policy for NMU. -- Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "This will go a long way towards the war on terror. Terrorists won't be able to install and use unauthorized OS's. This could potentially save thousands of lives." -- a slashdotter about "Trusted Computing"
