Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I think we have this problem to solve: quality going down and the > > > solution I see is attacking this problem in its roots: removing > > > bad packages and bad/mia maintainers > > > > I can see how removing bad packages helps. How does removing an MIA > > maintainer make anything better? > > We orphan ALL his packages, we get to know he is MIA and will not wait for > him for anything.
Oh, I think orphaning his packages can be a useful thing to do. But I just don't see why explicitly punting him helps. Just make the packages available for other people, and then welcome the guy back if/when he returns.