[Mageia-dev] [RFC] Nonresponsive or absent package maintainers & policy discussion

Thu Feb 16 10:25:59 CET 2012

Hi,
+
+due to the fact that this problem has already been encountered,
+it was brought up in yesterdays meeting that we need to discuss
+on a policy about how to handle unresponsive package maintainers,
+or if somebody is absent for a longer time (say more than a few days)
+we should also have guidelines or at least an official way to notify
+others of the absence.
+
+So to start and support the discussion, i've imported and adapted a
+Fedora policy on this subject into our wiki, the original version can
+be seen at:
+https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Policy/NonResponsiveMaintainers
+I've imported it to:
+https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Nonresponsive_package_maintainers
+
+Remember this is just a proposal, so details may need to be readjusted,
+For example in place of the FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee)
+i've put a placeholder "packaging team leader/representative/member"
+but maybe this could also be a task for the council, it's just that we have
+a basis for discussion of the policy.
+
+About the absence, or if somebody is on vacation, i've imported also
+https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Absent
+So please add an entry there if you will be absent from Mageia
+contribution or not responding to emails/IRC for more than a few
+days.
+
+
+Regards
+