On September 29, 2023 10:01:45 AM UTC, Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl>
wrote:
>On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 03:45:14PM +0000, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>> On September 28, 2023 3:22:20 PM UTC, Bastian Germann <b...@debian.org>
>> wrote:
>> >Okay. What do you suggest for "team maintained" packages where there is
>> >no active team member? File MIA processes for each of the uploaders?
>> >And then? The MIA team's bugs are not RC bugs, so you cannot even NMU
>> >them based on the MIA bug.
>> >
>> >I think, just letting such packages rot for one or two decades does not
>> > help anybody, certainly not our users.
>> Any team member can orphan the package.
>
>A team with 99 MIA members one active is not the problem here.
>But we have oh so many packages where the whole team is gone.
>
I agree. That's a different situation.
Personally, it doesn't bother me if someone just uploads such packages with QA
as the maintainer directly without bothering with the ITS process. If someone
makes a mistake it's trivially reversible with a new upload and unlike a
salvaged package there's no need to balance the equities of old/new maintainers.
There's probably no rule that says that's okay though.
Scott K
