Apologies if the answer to this is obvious, or if this is the wrong list. My question involves Xen which has been maintained through 2.0.5-3 (in experimental) by Adam Heath. I am not in any way trying to highjack this package - I was very happy with the original. However, since the release of Xen 2.0.6 (May 28th) there have been a few posts to the xen-users list suggesting that Adam is too busy to deal with this (including somebody who spoke with him on IRC), as well as calls to get a team of maintainers together. There have been some volunteers (as well as people, myself included, providing temporary, unofficial debs based on Adam's work) but no Debian Developers.
I've read the materials I could find on the site about the process, package maintenance, and policies, but since it really hasn't been that long, it seems too aggressive to file a bug report saying the package has been orphaned. I contacted some people on the Xen list to see if we could work together. I tried to reach Adam (although his lack of response could very likely mean I was spam-blocked, and I thought it rude to post to all the lists I've seen him on to try to get a response). I've been hoping that somebody else (somebody who's been there before) would step in with a clear plan. So far no luck. As time passes and people are using my very explicitly stated UNOFFICIAL packages, my fear is that the end result will reflect poorly on Debian, which is the very last thing I want. The only things I could think to do were keep working on my packages to make them clean and conform with policy, and post to this list to ask for advice. Does anybody have thoughts on what the best course of action is? Thanks, Yvette
