Re: promotion of orphaned packages

2011-12-14 Thread Neal H. Walfield
At Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:32:47 +0100, Nicolai Hess wrote: > Yes, but who decides to transfer the maintainance? Can this only be done by > the current > maintainer? > I doubt most maintainers of orphaned packages are listening to this > request. As I understand it, the maintainer gets an email. If t

Re: promotion of orphaned packages

2011-12-14 Thread Nicolai Hess
2011/12/14 Neal H. Walfield > Hi Nicolai, > > > Is it possible to transfer the maintainance for orphaned packages to > other, > > still active, developers? > > If so, I would volunteer myself for maintainance of some orphaned > packages. > > If you look at the package's page (e.g., > http://maemo

Re: promotion of orphaned packages

2011-12-14 Thread Neal H. Walfield
Hi Nicolai, > Is it possible to transfer the maintainance for orphaned packages to other, > still active, developers? > If so, I would volunteer myself for maintainance of some orphaned packages. If you look at the package's page (e.g., http://maemo.org/packages/view/feedingit/), there is a "Requ

Re: promotion of orphaned packages

2011-12-14 Thread Nicolai Hess
2011/12/14 Attila Csipa > On 14-Dec-11 03:00, Roberto Colistete Jr. wrote: > >> This have been talked about, but stopped at a question - do you really >>> want orphaned packages published in Extras ? If a problem surfaces or a >>> bug gets reported, there is nobody to take care of it, and removal

Re: promotion of orphaned packages

2011-12-14 Thread Attila Csipa
On 14-Dec-11 03:00, Roberto Colistete Jr. wrote: This have been talked about, but stopped at a question - do you really want orphaned packages published in Extras ? If a problem surfaces or a bug gets reported, there is nobody to take care of it, and removal can get really tricky (who gets final