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Hi Reinhard,

|--==> On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 11:15:42 +0100, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at tauware.de> said:

[...]

  >>Bug reports are usually a good way to get an idea of the health of a
  >>packages. If there are too many, the package is probably not very
  >>actively maintained. On the other hand if there is none, that smells
  >>like no user is really caring about the package.

  RT> I think this approach is too naive. Let's take for example ardour, it
  RT> has currently 56 open bug reports, vlc has 115. I wouldn't say we'd want
  RT> to remove these two packages from the team because of poor maintenance.

  RT> On the other hand, a package with 0 reports might just be a small
  RT> library package in excellent condition (e.g. libdca)!

Absolutely. The ones I mentioned are just "smells" that a package
might be not well-maintained, not fixed criteria to apply to decide if
we need to drop a certain package.

  >>The QA pages Reinhard points are a very good way to get a sense of the
  >>situation, I think all team members should go through them once every
  >>while.

  RT> Yes, I fully agree here.

  RT> But we perhaps need some critera and workflow how to propose a package
  RT> to be removed from the team.

Yeah, not sure if there's already some general Debian policy about
this.

  >>>>While it is always good to have co-maintainers, I don't really think
  >>>>we are in a position to require that, specially from an active team
  >>>>member, since manpower seems to be running a bit short.
  >>
  RT> But manpower is exactly my point! IME additional package require more
  RT> manpower that we don't have. My suggestions says basically: Extra
  RT> packages are only accepted if the addition doesn't reduce the manpower
  RT> per package ratio.
  >>
  >>I agree, so it makes sense to explicitly to a contributor whether he
  >>is ready to maintain the package even after the first upload.

  RT> is there a "communicate" missing above?

Yeah, or "ask", something like:

"it makes sense to ask explicitly to a contributor whether he"
                   ^^^
Ciao!

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