Hi Joost, Am Sat, Feb 22, 2025 at 10:50:05AM +0100 schrieb Joost van Baal-Ilić: > I believe our debian-mentors infrastructure currently is working pretty OK. > If > people file a bug, write a patch, and the problem _still_ isn't getting fixed, > they're very welcome to prepare a package and offer it for upload @ mentors.
I do not see this issue related to the problem. Samuel has written the patches, is DD and does not need sponsoring. Or am I missing something in your hint? > I am still not convinced the issue we're seeing here could be addressed by > changing our procedures. I am also convinced the current description of the > ITS process ( > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#package-salvaging > ) is serving its purpose just fine. OK. > > Probably we need to discuss the term "not actively maintained by > > maintainer" but IMHO examples like this should be included into the > > consideration. > > I agree we carry quite a lot of packages which could be considered > "not actively maintained by maintainer". It would indeed be better > if all our packages _were_ actively maintained by maintainer. But > I feel the way we're dealing with this now is good enough. I'd like to make this a topic for a DebCamp sprint. I disagree here and I'm basing my disagreement on the experience I made in the last half year. However, I do not consider emails to a bug report an appropriate way to deal with this. I'd be really happy to see you all joining me in DebCamp. > > > If people would like to take over long term maintenanceship of dotconf, > > > I'd > > > suggest these people should just talk to Shane. > > > > MIA team found out that all emails we know are not working. So this is > > no option. > <snip> > > I see. I am happy we have a MIA team dealing with this. +1 Kind regards Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de
