Hi Uwe, Am Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 09:47:07AM +0100 schrieb Uwe Kleine-König: > > let me ask a few devil's advocate questions:
Fine! > > - 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. My intention is to maintain the packages that are obviously orphaned at least better than before. We are picking packages that have not seen any upload the last five years. I can confirm that packages that were taken over by the Salvage team received subsequent uploads if there were any visible problems in a way shorter time span. > 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. It serves the following purpose: The original Maintainer remains responsible but every other member of the Package Salvage team can do some team upload if necessary. > > 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? No. But unsupported debhelper compat levels are for instance. Do you think it makes sense to specify such QA issues, lintian issues etc.? > Are there newcomers working on packages highlighted by the Bug of the > Day initiative? Unfortunately not yet. I've got a few responses from newcomers but no commits. I confirm that I consider this as a goal I was not able to reach with this project yet. Any hints how this can be enhanced? > Are newcomers expected to pick one of the highlighted > packages themselves, I would fully support this, but so far there was no volunteer to do so. > or only after they are imported in the Salvaging > Team? I'd be happy about this as well. > 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? Well, that's correct. But there are every day more of these. So there is really no shortage on low hanging fruits. My original idea was actually that I simply *recommend* some low hanging fruits to volunteers and than wait. This has not worked out yet, unfortunately. I'd love to see this happen in the future. So far I stick to demonstrating how those low hanging fruits can be fixed since in my opinion demonstrating what to do is the best way to teach what can be done. Kind regards Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de
