Am Donnerstag, den 03.08.2017, 14:50 -0400 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > Quoting Russ Allbery (2017-08-03 11:41:12) > > Bill Allombert <ballo...@debian.org> writes: > > > > > The patch also remove the requirement to list individual email of > > > the > > > maintainers. That is what I am objecting to. > > > > Oh, okay, I see that, but I'm not sure why. What is the purpose of > > listing those email addresses that you want to preserve? > > > > > When a team is reduced to a single individual, it is no more a > > > team, yet > > > the package is still maintained and need not be orphaned. > > > > It still is a team even when it's one individual. I don't know why > > you > > would say that it's not. A team can certainly contain just one > > person. > > > > I'm confused about how this is at all related to listing individual > > email > > addresses, and I don't understand why you think this would result > > in a > > package being orphaned. > > Do the MIA team also track MIA teams?
Yes, we also track teams. However, Tracking teams is quite hard and much more time consuming as information about the teams are not easy retrieveable, and you run easily in the situation of "partial MIA". Teams with active members -- but activity not within the team or just on a subset of packages. (But we're actually getting only very seldom requests about teams) > > My concern is that packages without maintainers may go unnoticed > when > none of its previously active maintainers were tracked individually. > > For such detection of abandonment we need not track _all_ active > maintainers, but at least one - as individual. > > > - Jonas >
