Re: Timeout of ITP's

2003-09-27 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 08:38:53PM +0200, S?ren Boll Overgaard wrote: So, my question is, how long should an ITP be allowed to just sit there before someone else (in this case myself or anyone else who would be interested) can go ahead and hijack it? Consider ITP's as advisory locks. If

Re: Timeout of ITP's

2003-09-27 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 08:38:53PM +0200, S?ren Boll Overgaard wrote: So, my question is, how long should an ITP be allowed to just sit there before someone else (in this case myself or anyone else who would be interested) can go ahead and hijack it? As a general rule, until you run out of

Re: Timeout of ITP's

2003-09-27 Thread Adam McKenna
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 08:38:53PM +0200, Søren Boll Overgaard wrote: Hi, An ITP[1] on thunderbird[2] was originally submitted to the BTA back in June. Since then, for various reasons, no package has been uploaded, and someone other then the original submitter of the ITP has committed to

Re: Timeout of ITP's

2003-09-27 Thread Søren Boll Overgaard
lør, 2003-09-27 kl. 03:29 skrev Glenn Maynard: On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 08:38:53PM +0200, Søren Boll Overgaard wrote: An ITP[1] on thunderbird[2] was originally submitted to the BTA back in Your footnotes are dangling. My apologies: [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=196504

Re: Timeout of ITP's

2003-09-27 Thread Søren Boll Overgaard
lør, 2003-09-27 kl. 07:14 skrev Anthony Towns: [...] Consider ITP's as advisory locks. If you're interested in maintaining a package then it's useful information on how to avoid work (email the guy, get whatever he's done so far), or a useful advisory of who might be worth cooperating with (do

Timeout of ITP's

2003-09-26 Thread Søren Boll Overgaard
Hi, An ITP[1] on thunderbird[2] was originally submitted to the BTA back in June. Since then, for various reasons, no package has been uploaded, and someone other then the original submitter of the ITP has committed to uploading a package. However, nothing has happened for nearly a month now, and

Re: Timeout of ITP's

2003-09-26 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 08:38:53PM +0200, Søren Boll Overgaard wrote: An ITP[1] on thunderbird[2] was originally submitted to the BTA back in Your footnotes are dangling. -- Glenn Maynard