On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 04:20:43PM +0200, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > If someone notices that a package is in need of greater attention, but > cannot commit to attending it themselves, it's important that the > packages is marked at least as needing help. > > I understand the entire point here is to mark packages which are > effectively abandoned as orphaned, so that others can see them in the > wnpp news for instance. > > It's certainly better if a new foster maintainer can be found for the > package right away, but it should IMHO not be mandatory. Prospective > maintainers, those that "want to help Debian" but don't know were to > start, will be able to adopt an orphaned package, but not to salvage > one in most cases. > > Take it as a three body encounter: > - a package with no effective maintainer; > - a developer who notices the problem; > - a prospective maintainer.
I fully agree with all the above with "s/developer/person/". Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121026063112.gi10...@master.debian.org
