On Friday 01 June 2012 09:16:35 Svante Signell wrote: > Regarding DMs the non-responsiveness of some of them is frustrating, > they don't bother to comment on any of the bug reports. Is that the > way a DM is supposed to work?
I don't think so. > And with the recent discussions on d-devel > about hijacking etc it seems that if you are a DM for a package is set > in stone *forever*. There's a middle ground between hijacking and letting a package rot: Debian developers reference provides instructions to deal with "inactive and/or unreachable maintainers" [1]. I know from experience that following this process is an exercice is patience, but it's the best way to deal with maintainers which may be distracted by, well, real life events. > I really wonder if Debian is for me at all. There are other free > software distributions, Ubuntu, Redhat Fedora, Mandriva, etc. I've been > contributing there before. And there are even really free software > distributions. So why stick to Debian? Heh, I could give you an answer, but it would be valid only for me ;-) All the best [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/beyond-pkging.html#mia-qa -- https://github.com/dod38fr/config-model/ -o- http://search.cpan.org/~ddumont/ http://ddumont.wordpress.com/ -o- irc: dod at irc.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201206011028.22691....@debian.org
