Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages - goal
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 04:12:03PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 10/26/2012 01:09 PM, Bart Martens wrote: I expect the cc to debian-qa to draw sufficient DD's attention. And the ACKs are about agreeing on marking a package as orphaned. That's the easy part. The salvaging part goes via the existing ITA procedure. That's the hard part. Could anyone explain what broken thing we are trying to fix? - Is the current process of orphaning broken? (if so: why?) - Is there too many hijacks? - Not enough salvage? And more importantly: - What do you expect the new procedure will do? What's the goal? People interested in salvaging an unmaintained package are discouraged by the current procedures. The new procedure is meant to add a lightweight procedure to mark unmaintained packages as orphaned, so that anyone interested can adopt them without needless delay. Basically the goal is to increase speed in getting packages salvaged. I have re-read Lucas Nussbaum original post, and I didn't find any information about the above. Some aspects were discussed earlier in different threads than this one. Regards, Bart Martens -- 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/20121026090720.ga23...@master.debian.org
Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages - goal
On 10/26/2012 05:07 PM, Bart Martens wrote: People interested in salvaging an unmaintained package are discouraged by the current procedures. The new procedure is meant to add a lightweight procedure to mark unmaintained packages as orphaned, so that anyone interested can adopt them without needless delay. Basically the goal is to increase speed in getting packages salvaged. Thanks, this is much more clear now. After more thoughts, I probably agree such a proposal. Probably, Steve Langasek is right in that it shouldn't be such a big deal to find few DDs to vote for the salvaging... And if I understand well, this procedure is *on top* of what we have currently for orphaning anyway (eg: QA team orphaning MIA maintainers, and the tech. commity), right? Thomas -- 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/508ae1de.4080...@debian.org
