Hi, On 30/01/14 at 13:51 +0100, Olivier Berger wrote: > Hi. > > I'm not sure this is really a problem we should address. Sorry if I'm > overlooking details. > > I suspect we have quite a few orphaned old packages still in testing, > for which an ITA (Intent to Adopt) has been offered by a non DD, which > is waiting for sponsorship. Typically, some of these potential > maintainers may be active users or upstream maintainers. > > But who cares ? > > If such package are getting removed from testing (re. new release policy > experiment), maybe that would draw more attention to these pending > sponsorship requests (provided that DDs using them, or "educated" users are > indeed > notified of the testing removal), and help bring back updated packages > and new maintainers in the loop ? > > I'm not sure we can back this discussion by figures of such pending > sponsorship requests, or if that could be counterproductive in the > end. Maybe testing removals isn't the best way to encourage more > mentoring and sponsorship (I'm thinking of the Mentoring of the Month > experiment in Debian-med that Andreas presented at the Paris Mini > Debconf recently, for instance). > I myself isn't very motivated to sponsor packages which I don't > use... but maybe I'm not noticing at all (or didn't read how-can-i-help > messages ;-).
In order to help noticing such RFSs, how-can-i-help is now listing them (in version 4, uploading a couple minutes ago): | New packages waiting for sponsorship (reviews/tests are also useful): | - hwinfo - http://bugs.debian.org/733578 - RFS: hwinfo/21.0-1 [ITA] -- Hardware identification system (and how-can-i-help already lists orphaned, RFA, ITA, RFH packages, bugs tagged 'gift', packages removed from testing, and packages going to be removed from testing soon). Lucas -- 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/20140203215450.gb30...@xanadu.blop.info
