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

Thu Mar 8 15:05:17 CET 2012

Am 16.02.2012 10:25, schrieb Florian Hubold:
+> 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
+>
+Maybe "nonresponsive" should have been removed from the
+subject, then it wouldn't have infected everyone else ... :/
+
+No comments, objections or anything about that proposal
+in the wiki?
+