[Netconf-devel] ajt says that nobody offered ifupdown co-maintainership

[Thomas Hood]

On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 08:35 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> in the DPL-Debate, ajt has said that the people NMUing ifupdown have
> made it clear that they do not intend to co-maintain the package. I
> cannot believe that to be true.


Michael Weber said long ago that he did not want to co-maintain the
package.  This was after he had a bad experience trying to fix bugs in
the package, only to have much of his work get rejected or ignored.

One or two people have announced on debian-devel that they were willing
to take over maintainership, but these people were obviously not
qualified to do the work.  (I.e., they were cranks.)

Marco d'Itri, Javier Pe=F1a and Marc Haber all refused when I asked them
either to take over the package or to team up with me to do it.

I have not made any offer to take over the package or co-maintain
because I am not a DD.  If I am ever admitted as a DD then I might make
such an offer, unless of course the problem is solved first in some
other way.

So ajt is not lying.  On the other hand, I am not aware that he has ever
asked for help with the package.


> May I ask who has been in contact with ajt, explicitly offering
> co-maintainership?
>=20
> If it is true that we didn't offer it clearly in the past, we should
> do so _immediately_.


Marco d'Itri co-maintains netbase with ajt and in fact does all the
uploads for the package.  If you are willing, you might be able to play
the same role w.r.t. ifupdown.

--=20
Thomas Hood <jdthood@aglu.demon.nl>