Hi all, it seems we have some maintainers not maintaining their packages properly, letting both RC and non-RC bugs pile up. The last example which has been discussed extensively on #debian-devel is anibal. His list of packages maintained include core packages like: nfs-common, portmap and libpng as well as less core, but widely used packages like fping, libx86 and gparted.
Taking a look at the bug list, it consists of no less than 12 RC bugs across 9 packages, with only two bug reports having had any response from the maintainer. I am not sure what we should do with problems like this. Not doing anything sends a signal that DDs are held to a different standard than DMs and NMs. I don't think that is a signal we should send. Ideally, we should be able to ask the maintainer to scale back and they do so. However, what should we do if they either don't respond or disagree? The TC can already rule over maintainership so perhaps that is enough and we don't need any more procedures or rules to handle those cases? -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org