Hi, due to the fact that this problem has already been encountered, it was brought up in yesterdays meeting that we need to discuss on a policy about how to handle unresponsive package maintainers, or if somebody is absent for a longer time (say more than a few days) we should also have guidelines or at least an official way to notify others of the absence.
So to start and support the discussion, i've imported and adapted a Fedora policy on this subject into our wiki, the original version can be seen at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Policy/NonResponsiveMaintainers I've imported it to: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Nonresponsive_package_maintainers Remember this is just a proposal, so details may need to be readjusted, For example in place of the FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee) i've put a placeholder "packaging team leader/representative/member" but maybe this could also be a task for the council, it's just that we have a basis for discussion of the policy. About the absence, or if somebody is on vacation, i've imported also https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Absent So please add an entry there if you will be absent from Mageia contribution or not responding to emails/IRC for more than a few days. Regards
