Am Montag, den 27.02.2006, 07:33 -0500 schrieb seth vidal: > > Deadbeat maintainers should be automatically disowned. > > No sign of life in X amount of time ==> package becomes orphan > > automatically. Make it a policy and put an end to debates. > > > > Easy. > > Automatically? You mean w/o trying to contact the maintainer off-list? > Occasionally people respond well to a poke. It might be worth making the > rule 'after N attempts to contact over N months' Well, I would prefer a solution somewhere between those two ideas. For example something like this: - you open a bugzilla-ticket with a fix/enhancement. Maintainer does not react after N days (N=14, shorter timeframe if it's something more important, e.g. security or something is totally broken) -> you go ask on fedora-extras-list for comments and wait for another 24 hours -> apply patch and build - if 'after N (N=something between 3 and 5) failed attempts to contact maintainer over N (N=something between 10 and 18) weeks' a package officially is orphaned. Opinions? CU thl -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
