On 1/12/06, Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > > [Florian Weimer] > >> What about: stop threatening your fellow developers? > > > > Why is specifying the consequences of doing a bad job with maintaining > > ones debian packages threatening? > > IMHO it isn't at all. > > > Personally I believe it is time we made clear and written down > > explanations on what will happen to badly maintained packages, and > > then implement it, to make sure the quality of the packages still in > > Debian when this policy is implement is higher than the current level. > > In addition to the list of Anthony I might add: > Require kind of a monthly status report of the maintainer. There must be a > reason if an RC bug is open longer than a month. The maintainer should > give reasons like "Need help", "Discussing with upstream", ... > If the RC bug is two month old: "Sorry, got no help", "Upstream is ignorant", > ... > If a maintainer would not manage to respond to an RC bug for three months > the package is obviousely not maintained and should be taken over by > somebody else, IMHO.
I wish something like that applied to all bugs. There are packages that have seen little updates for months/years with lots of wishlist bugs.
