On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 16:27 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > > > It doesn't _require_ a new maintainer -- the person who owned in Core > > could quite happily continue to maintain it at least during the > > transition. > > That was often not the case in the past iirc. Then let's just drop the word 'happily' and make it a declaration: When packages are moved from Core to Extras, the existing Core maintainer shall continue to own the package. They can attempt to find a new victim^Wvolunteer to maintain the package later if they so desire. > > A change of maintainer is something we can handle anyway, if > > they don't want to continue. > > > And we could bypass the formal review for the initial binary package too > > -- just make sure it passes review before the first _update_ is actually > > put through the Extras build system. > > And if there no one steps up to maintain it in extras? If it fails > review? Will it be deleted? Who will do that? When? Chances are high > that some packages will just linger around there until FC6 test3. Handle it precisely the same as any other abdication. If the Extras maintainer of gtk+ suddenly declares that they have no more time for the task, we have exactly the same questions, right? -- dwmw2
