Re: Hijacking^W^W^W^W^W^WSalvaging packages for fun and profit: A proposal

2012-10-10 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 11/10/12 at 05:50 +, Bart Martens wrote: > | Anyone can mark a package as orphaned after the following steps have been > | completed : Someone submits an "intent to orphan" (ITO) in the bts with > an > | explanation of why he/she thinks that the package needs a new > maintainer.

Re: Hijacking^W^W^W^W^W^WSalvaging packages for fun and profit: A proposal

2012-10-10 Thread Bart Martens
Hi Lucas, Thanks for coming back on this. On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 12:04:33AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 28/09/12 at 18:48 +0200, Arno Töll wrote: > > Hello, > > > > we may all agree that the maintenance of some (many?) packages in Debian > > is in a unclear situation. There is a transient

Re: Hijacking^W^W^W^W^W^WSalvaging packages for fun and profit: A proposal

2012-10-10 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > So, reading this thread (which was surprisingly quiet, given the topic), > it seems that everybody agrees that such a procedure would be a good > thing (nobody had fundamental concerns). But now we have two proposed > procedures: > - one wh

Re: Hijacking^W^W^W^W^W^WSalvaging packages for fun and profit: A proposal

2012-10-10 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 28/09/12 at 18:48 +0200, Arno Töll wrote: > Hello, > > we may all agree that the maintenance of some (many?) packages in Debian > is in a unclear situation. There is a transient state, where people are > interested to bring a package in shape but the strong role of a package > maintainer in Deb

Re: collab-qa vs qa alioth groups?

2012-10-10 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 12995 March 1977, Paul Wise wrote: > webwml is another example of a group that is different between alioth > and other Debian hosts. Thats simple: alioth is not a debian.org host. It "only" has the domain and syncs parts of the debian ud-ldap data, and admins overlap. But besides that, its a d