On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 09:59:24PM +0100, Leo costela Antunes wrote: > What about adding some informal rule like this to dev-ref (or wherever): > after n unacknowledged NMUs the package may be taken over without it > being considered a "hostile takeover", more like "updating to reflect > the de-facto maintainer".
The trouble with an approach like that is that it doesn't provide a clear route to dealing with situations where the maintainer is occasionally active but not managing to keep up with things well enough to do a good job. It's also trying to come up with a quantative rule to deal with what is essentially a social problem which is generally problematic. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
