On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 07:48:10AM +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
Loui Chang wrote:
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 01:51:43PM -0500, Ghost1227 wrote:
Over the last few months, I have noticed that TU Swiergot has neglected his packages in community. I first noticed this with the cinelerra-cv package which was several months out of date and using the now-defunct cvs repo (cinelerra-cv switched to git two months ago). I posted a cinelerra-cv-git package to the AUR and attempted several times to contact him. Two months went by and I got no reply from any of the several addresses he has, so I discussed the situation with another TU, then updated his cinelerra-cv package and sent him another email notifying him of the update. I have since taken a look through his packages and the bugtracker. He has several packages marked out of date (and some have comments explaining fixes), as well as a handful of open bugs on the bugtracker. Since I have been unable to contact him through any means, I propose orphaning his packages so that more available TUs can take over the responsibility for them. There are several that I would be happy to take over (assaultcube, cinelerra-cv, cube, dosemu, fcrackzip, nexuiz, qemu-launcher, stegdetect, steghide, supertux and maybe a few others), and some of his packages (including some of the ones i'll take) should be dropped to the AUR.
Discuss
Yeah sounds good. TUs should be just as accountable as regular users. If he hasn't responded to emails about outdated packages, let others adopt those packages. Does swiergot appear active according to TU votes?
I think you are the only person who can tell this since we switched to voting on the AUR. Care to look?
You can kind of check yourself with the new features. Yes swiergot did vote in the last proposal (Changing [community] management system).
Well, actually the bylaws state that we remove TUs only if they have prevented a vote from reaching quorum. But so far all votes have made it. So we can keep him for now if he does reappear.
Relevant section from the bylaws:
If a TU becomes inactive without declaring it, "disappears", someone must motion for their removal for reason of unwarranted and undeclared inactivity, and the normal procedure for the motion is followed.
I meant the automatic removal procedure. But yeah if someone is uncomfortable with swiergot's scarceness he or she is encouraged to motion for removal.