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

Re: promotion of orphaned packages

2011-12-13 Thread Roberto Colistete Jr.
On 12/12/2011 08:19 PM, emme750 at gmail.com wrote: You should also solve the problem of those applications that are ready to be promoted, but the maintainer is no longer "alive". For example, after one month of the release, the promotion may become automatic, or we should enable Supertester to