Quoting Jonathan Dowland (2026-02-05 14:08:44) > On Wed Feb 4, 2026 at 5:38 PM GMT, Andreas Tille wrote: > > 2.1. MIA team > snip > > 4. in case of no answer, the MIA team will make one manual attempt > > to reach the person, indicating that failing to get a response on > > that, the person's packages (if any) will be orphaned > > I'm a big fan of packages being team maintained by default. > > However, an ostensibly team-maintained package which is de-facto only > actually maintained by one developer, will languish if that developer is > MIA, and would not be caught by the above step. > > So as the ratio of team-maintained packages increases, the gain achieved > by orphaning directly-maintained packages as part of the MIA process > goes down. > > Has anyone got any plans to try and identify and track such packages?
Not a plan but a technique: List in Uploaders field those in the team are more devoted to this particular package, and treat as a warning sign (preferably within the team, but otherwise by the MIA team) team-maintained packages with less than N explicit uploaders. I know that the Multimedia team has used this technique in the past, with N=2. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ * Sponsorship: https://ko-fi.com/drjones [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
