On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 19:09:48 -0200 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > Oh, I think orphaning his packages can be a useful thing to do. But I > > just don't see why explicitly punting him helps. Just make the > > If he did not warn us he would be MIA (all it takes is a message to -devel, > -private, or asking someone in irc to send said email), and he has not a > damn good excuse (being in the hospital nearly dying is a good one for not > notifying anyone, for example), he deserves to go through the pains of > nm.debian.org to learn to be more considerate of others. that's exactly what I think... anyway what I meant with 'removing MIA maintainers' was: send him a notice that he'll be removed if he won't take care of his packages/other tasks for foo more days, if he does not answer or tell us he's giving up his key is removed from the keyring and etc... I don't see the point on keeping long-MIA maintainers.. after that he has to go through nm.debian.org again. Besides that's a good test to check if the applicant has time and will hehehe []s! -- Gustavo Noronha Silva - kov <http://www.metainfo.org/kov> *---------* -+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+-+ | .''`. | Debian GNU/Linux: <http://www.debian.org> | | : :' : + Debian BR.......: <http://debian-br.cipsga.org.br>+ | `. `'` + Q: "Why did the chicken cross the road?" + | `- | A: "Upstream's decision." -- hmh | *---------* -+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+-+