On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 01:38:22AM +0000, Mo Zhou wrote: > Hi Adrian, Hi Mo,
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 11:07:34PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: >... > > The work Mo spent on the already-outdated tensorflow package in > > experimental was wasted if there is noone who continues maintaining it. > > And the same would be true for other new packages if the packager > > disappears afterwards. > > Debian should have already got used to the fact that volunteers are > scarce resource. Are they scarce or scared away? I had some points in [1] regarding the problems of volunteers trying to get contributions in Debian. > > What is actually needed are one (or ideally several) people with > > a long-term commitment to maintain these packages. > > I think most of such long-term + high-workload maintaining works are > actually backed by salary. >From what I am aware, I would say it is pretty much an exception when maintaining packages in unstable is paid work. Especially long-term, apart from Canonical there are not many companies that have an interest in Debian that does not go away after their next round of restructure+layoffs. cu Adrian [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2019/03/msg00199.html -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed
