[aur-general] Discussion regarding TU Swiergot

[Ghost1227]

Ronald van Haren wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Daenyth Blank <daenyth+arch at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 13:51, Ghost1227 <ghost1227 at archlinux.us> 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 which was several months out of date and using the now-defunct cvs repo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 packages marked out of date (and some have comments explaining fixes), as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
>>>
>>>       
>> If he's been inactive that long (and iirc without notice) then
>> according to the TU bylaws, he should be removed as a TU.
>>
>>     
> is this an actual removal discussion or what is the topic of this discussion?
>
> Ronald
>
>   
Well my initial intent was simply to turn over his packages (or at least 
the outdated ones) to people who are actually available to handle them. 
However, Daenyth brings up a good point and perhaps this should be an 
actual removal discussion. After several months of trying to contact a 
TU, and several other TUs not even knowing who he is... I'd say it's a 
safe bet he's been inactive a while. Have to actually look at the 
logs/ML archive to see for sure though.