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> I think four weeks would be much better. A maintainer might > reasonably go abroad for 2-3 weeks - we even have a VAC process for > handling absences. (And we don't want to complicate this third-party > orphan process with references to VACs.) Remember that we do not really have a VAC process for the ~50% of maintainers who are not DDs [1]. That group of maintainers have no real way of letting the rest of the project know that they are on VAC [2]. They also have an interest in and a proven ability to maintain packages and so may like to help out with other unmaintained packages ... after all, we they are encouraged time and time again to adopt packages rather than introduce new ones into the archive. But they cannot know if the maintainer is on VAC or not to engage in this process. I'm not suggesting that VAC status should be public information, but blanket statements that we know if maintainers are on VAC (or MIA or whatever) are wrong for 50% of our maintainers as are statements that potential salvagers have this information. cheers Stuart [1] http://lists.debian.org/jr6344$lkp$1...@dough.gmane.org [2] I would encourage them to let their sponsors know this since the sponsors are in the position of helping care for their packages anyway - -- Stuart Prescott http://www.nanonanonano.net/ stu...@nanonanonano.net Debian Developer http://www.debian.org/ stu...@debian.org GPG fingerprint BE65 FD1E F4EA 08F3 23D4 3C6D 9FE8 B8CD 71C5 D1A8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlCP7EgACgkQn+i4zXHF0ajEqACgvyXY9SvtOYjjh0RsaUrgO580 n7UAoNPA7ggz/QbjhHBaO4K3ZPdqsiXi =5Qyy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/k6oq8f$22k$1...@ger.gmane.org
