On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 6:06 AM, Patrick Matthäi wrote: > a) How should we handle requests, where the maintainer *may* be MIA? > Just for an example #658114 - a realy simple question is unanswered for > about 6 months! > IMO they should be pinged one more time, maybe they have overseen the > response, but if I want to see a package in Debian, I would track it, so > I also would see such "maintainers" as possible MIA candidates just > after their first uploads. So on they may be not qualified to maintain > packages/bugs within a distribution.
What the other Paul said. Also, since he is maintaining existing packages maybe he should be reported to the MIA team as per usual MIA procedures? http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=mateusz.kijowski%40gmail.com > b) Should we assume that the uploader is aware about freeze and realy > delay typical "new upstream release" uploads to unstable? IMO I do not > think so. The process is a bit more complicated but it is still possible > to update testing packages without unstable upoads. > Surely it is not the cleanest way but sponsorship requests should be > processed :) Your job as a sponsor is also to educate people about usual procedures; devref, subscribe to d-d-a etc. So IMO sponsors should inform folks about d-d-a, the freeze and ask if they want it in experimental instead. > Personaly I would not sponsor packages in the a) case, so on I think > they should be closed and some more active and interested mentor could > do this job. Hmmm, if you find such cases please at least mail the bug/sponsee. > b) is controverse when testing is freezed, but the number of requests > will just grow and grow! Maybe also some warning to the uploader like > "we are frozen, please only upload important bugfixes to sid if > required, if not please use experimental" Adding that in a very visible banner on mentors.d.n sounds like a great idea. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAKTje6EmNAGvyzjzGWtSg8pLn-FE2BRs7VCBL3BhGv6K+=h�@mail.gmail.com
