Mattia, Thanks for taking the time to reply.
On 05/31/2016 05:13 PM, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 01:18:42PM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> I've been trying to get in touch with the package maintainer of >> python-selenium, Sascha Girrulat, since the 3rd of March. Despite 4 >> messages sent to the bug tracker, with the last one from the 13th of may >> (2 weeks ago), the current maintainer doesn't reply at all to the bug >> tracker, and doesn't seem to care / has no time to address opened bugs. > > This timeframe doesn't designate a person as MIA, sorry. Hum... ok. What's the usual timeframe then? >> Other issues like #805733 and #805732 (both have a patch available) have >> also been left unanswered. > > I do acknowledge that Sascha is not very active (but never was, there > was already a entry in the MIA db from 2014), and he/she is quite > unresponsive, which is very relevant considering the low number of > package he/she maintains. > >> It is therefore my opinion that we can declare python-selenium as >> unmaintained. I'd be willing to adopt the package as part of the PKG >> OpenStack group (so the package would be team maintained), as it could >> be very useful to increase the QA of the openstack-dashboard package (so >> that unit tests could be run with Selenium). > > Sascha: pretty please, consider this offer of either giving up the > package or comaintain it with the PKG-OS team. The unresponsiveness of maintainers combined with the strong ownership of packages is one thing which very frustrating in Debian. It gives the feeling that no mater what, we can't do anything. Would you consider then, that I is ok to NMU the package, to upgrade to the latest upstream release and address the 2 other open bugs, plus some packaging clean-ups (if needed, as I haven't checked yet...)? Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)
