Re: Orphaning package

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On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 00:23 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> The first one is, in my opinion, a contributor killer issue and I have
> been reporting it more than once. It is not acceptable to have packagers
> not handling rapidly bugs where submitter proposes patches, or volunteer
> to take care of the issue. FESCo should really come up with a guideline 
> or a solution for such issues, which is not a case-by-case decision. 
> It is especially frustrating when a contributor has done some work and 
> still the package maintainer doesn't seems to care at all about it.

Perhaps the AWOL maintainer policy could be adapted/extended into a
"non-responsive" maintainer policy. Not caring about a package is not a
mark against the maintainer, but allowing it to bitrot is.

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