On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 04:08:06PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Julian Gilbey wrote: > > Good guidelines. One point: we must always remember to check whether > > a maintainer has filled in the "On vacation" field in the DB. > > Occasionally, developers are forced to go on extended leave (army > > callups or similar). > > Some maintainer also forget to remove that data.. I've seen people > who were listed as being on vacation even though they returned 6 > months earlier.
I did so once. But because I said "until ....", it was obvious. Maintainers should, ideally, do that. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/