Re: a question for all the candidates, but particularly Anthony Towns

2005-03-15 Thread Anthony Towns
Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: We have an existing procedure for dealing with MIA maintainers, which involves careful looks at their list activity and condition of the packages. The subject says "particularly Anthony Towns", because he has expressed a desire for a greater and more active enforcement o

Re: a question for all the candidates, but particularly Anthony Towns

2005-03-13 Thread Matthew Garrett
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Developer's Reference Manual, in section 5.9.4 says you "need" to > orphan a package "if you can no longer maintain" it. (It does not > merely say that you should do so, or that you might want to.) Do we > need a procedure to deal with cases l

Re: a question for all the candidates, but particularly Anthony Towns

2005-03-12 Thread Andreas Schuldei
On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 04:24:39AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Do we need a procedure to deal with cases like this? Should > the QA team simply go ahead and devise one, as it did with the > MIA problem? I consulted Jeroen van Wolffelaar about how this works, currently. He is the person w

a question for all the candidates, but particularly Anthony Towns

2005-03-12 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
The subject says "particularly Anthony Towns", because he has expressed a desire for a greater and more active enforcement of such things as the mailing list policy, and this seems another similar area. But I would much like to hear from all the DPL candidates on the following question. We have