* Camale?n <noela...@gmail.com> [2011-06-25 11:09:40 +0000]: > Which is fine... but in such cases there should be the figure of an > ombudsman, the "glue" that acts when no one is in charge of a package- or > that seems to be missing- that at least lets you know what is happening > and what's the bug status. With accurate information, you can quietly > wait or go upstream with the bug. You have more choices. > > Not news is not good news is this case.
Greetings! FreeBSD's ports system has something similar to what your talking about here. The life of a port first depends on it's Maintainer, if s/he quits, gives up, gets bored, what ever, the port then defaults to Ports system maintainers where they, collectively decide one of the following: a) absorb the port and continue support b) find a new maintainer c) drop support and move on This is all decided by the Ports System committee and doesn't happen over night. There is ample time for people to be properly notified and for them to find a new maintainer amungst themselves or elsewhere or for people to move off/away from that port. Just my $0.02 :D -- > Chris Brennan > -- > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. > >>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? > http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http://xkcd.com/549/ > GPG: D5B20C0C (6741 8EE4 6C7D 11FB 8DA8 9E4A EECD 9A84 D5B2 0C0C) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110625165320.ga6...@gmail.com