Hello Andreas, let me ask a few devil's advocate questions:
On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 08:35:16AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> I'm interested in salvaging your package hyphen-ru, in accordance with
> the Package Salvaging procedure outlined in the Developers Reference[1].
> Your package meets the criteria for this process, and I would love to
> assist in preserving and maintaining it. As the Salvage process
> suggests, here is a list of the criteria that apply, in my opinion:
>
> - Bugs filed against the package where one with patch has no answer from the
> maintainer.
> - There are QA issues with the package.
Another criteria for Package Salvaging (according to [1]) is: "Note that
the process is only intended for actively taking over maintainership."
Given the big amount of ITS bugs you report, I wonder if this is given.
If so I wonder further if
Maintainer: Package Salvaging Team <team+salv...@tracker.debian.org>
Uploaders: Ilyas Gasanov <torso.n...@gmail.com>
is really suitable.
> I've set up a repository within the salvage-team space[2] to assist you
> with this initial setup. If you decide not to accept the ITS, this
> repository can easily be moved to another location, such as debian/, or
> any place of your choosing. I hope this service helps make the
> transition to using a Git repository on Salsa smoother and more
> convenient for you.
Is "package is not maintained on Salsa" considered a QA issue?
> Please note: I migrated your repository from Github to Salsa and hope
> this is OK for you.
>
> Your package was highlighted in the Bug of the Day[3] initiative, which
> aims to introduce newcomers to manageable tasks and guide them through
> the workflow to solve them. The focus of this initiative is on migrating
> packages to Salsa, as it's a great way to familiarize newcomers with a
> consistent Git-based workflow.
Are there newcomers working on packages highlighted by the Bug of the
Day initiative? Are newcomers expected to pick one of the highlighted
packages themselves, or only after they are imported in the Salvaging
Team? Now that you fixed all the QA issues you're aware of, you took all
the low-hanging fruits for a newcomer to work on this package?
Best regards
Uwe
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