At 19:13 Uhr -0800 16.01.2003, Ben Hines wrote:
msek has vanished, anyone want to take the partial gnome2 packages in his experimental directory? We continue to get requests for them. People are even bashing fink because it doesn't have gnome 2. I agree, it is kinda silly.Ho ho ho, wait a moment, not so fast. msek has "vanished" for one month (to be precise, his last CVS commit was on Dec 12th), ok, but then I was absent for almost a month, too. Maybe he's just sick or on a longer vacation or whatever.
For that matter, anyone want to take over all of msek's packages?
So, before we do such a drastic step as taking away all his packages (msek is one of our main package maintainers after all), I think we should first undertake everything in our power to contact him. That includes emailing him on alter email address (his main email mailbox seems to be full?), trying to find people who know him directly and email them (like relatives), and maybe trying to get hold of a phone number and calling him. And even then, let's wait at least another week.
That said, if we encounter serious bugs or problems in one of his packages, we can just fix them now - but gnome2 is hardly *that* important that it can't wait yet another week.
Do we have a policy on maintainer non-response? We should establish one, i think.Indeed. Including a time limit before we start taking action. Next step should be specifiying what all will be done to try and reach the mainainer (like, if email fails, trying to get a phone number if need be, and call him).
Max
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