On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 09:51:16AM +0200, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > > So yes, I say long silence from the entire community *including the > package maintainer(s)* probably means it's safer to orphan the package > than not. I would probably send a few pings during the one month > period though. I would also be careful during vacation periods, > especially if the maintainer is not a DD and therefore can not easily > announce VAC. >
Can you define in absolute terms what are the "vacation periods" that apply to anyone/everyone of all cultures and religious backgrounds in the world in a way that is acceptable to everyone? A long silence is defined as how many hours/days/weeks/months/years? All the pings in the world won't help if you are sending them via a path that discards them. I know several large US ISPs that automatically reject what they consider SPAM without the customer's knowledge. If the sender of the ping is on a SPAM list for one of them, the ping will never get to the maintainer, and *no one* will know. (From personal experience I can tell you mail from the Debian list addresses does get "caught" in these SPAM "filters" and no, the ISPs won't change the policy.) Pat -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121025174752.gb19...@flying-gecko.net