[arch-general] packager sometimes missing in arch's web interface

[Aaron Griffin]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Adam Vogt <vogt.adam at gmail.com> wrote:
> * On Monday, August 11 2008, Jan de Groot wrote:
>
>>Our web frontend works with 2 things when it comes to assigning
>>maintainers:
>>- the repository it is in
>>- the architecture of the package
>>
>>So when I package glib2, I add two packages, one for i686 and one for
>>x86_64. Because of our signoff policy, I will have to do updates to
>>testing, creating another set of packages.
>>The testing packages are created and deleted everytime they're moved to
>>the core or extra repository. It makes no sense to adopt these packages
>>everytime. If you flag a testing package, nobody gets notified. Flag the
>>extra/core package instead.
>
> Thanks for clearing that up.
>
> In the case of bitlbee, the package in [extra] appears orphaned. If that's
> not the case, wouldn't it be better if the web interface determined
> maintainership from the pkgbuild itself?

Simo was the last owner of that package, but he has since orphaned it
on purpose. There is currently no maintainer.