-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 3/18/14, 6:59 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > (Ccing the current maintainers of mumble) > > Hi, > > On 17/03/14 at 18:21 -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: >> Greetings. >> >> I'm looking to adopt the mumble package after a long period of inactivity from >> the current maintainer (last activity 2012-11-12 in #691535), who is not >> totally MIA but whom has not responded to contact attempts. Last year the >> package fell out of Testing and I was eventually contacted by others to help. >> With some difficulty in finding a sponsor I was able to upload a newer version >> in late November, then uploaded fixes for two CVEs that were found later. >> Unfortunately the latest version in the Vcs contains these CVEs (and also has >> its base communication codec removed). >> >> After some discussion on [debian-devel] I decided to file an ITA (#739997) to >> offer to adopt the package, but I haven't gotten any response in 3 weeks. >> I've also tried to contact the maintainer via IRC in #debian-devel but haven't >> gotten a response there either. >> >> Since filing the ITA I've found that there have been several discussions in >> [debian-devel] on this issue [1] [2] and a common suggestion seems to be >> getting some kind of group consensus for adopting the package rather than an >> individual developer making that decision, and specifically suggesting seeking >> input from [debian-qa] for this purpose. >> >> So is it okay for me to adopt the package? > > I looked at the state of the package. There's nothing that requires > immediate action, but there are a number of things that could be > improved (there's a new upstream release available, 1.2.5, since > 2014-02-05; there are several important bugs with no comment from the > maintainer). > > Given that you seem to have been doing the maintenance work lately, I > personally have no objection to you adopting the package. > > To move forward, I propose giving the maintainers until 2014-04-01 to > object. > > In the meantime, it would be nice if you could work on the known > open issues -- that's work that will be useful whether you adopt the > package, become part of a maintenance team, or just hand over the > patches to the current maintainers. > > Lucas Hi,
I've not done any work on the Mumble package in a long time. It would make me very happy if the package is maintained and active, as I feel a certain amount of guilt for not working on it. - - Thorvald -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQCVAwUBUyiDUCNLRZCqvN95AQKTBAP+JpgwV48Ane0CSwyX4+FmOEu3vq9uklY1 Ca4JrAF6jCVjakeCejkAYo+tf3I4L/TZN+Dm2Mz6ss/0hBM7FzB2SyZeSQbgg1rR cS1WTt9cHtNClRjQZmrveErZ/kR5odLZ2KGyNnwzG4RlJLFffOZJOAUhH2YQEioe 6v16L0XC9cc= =FUQU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org