[csw-maintainers] Perl package maintainers

[Philip Brown]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Peter Bonivart <bonivart at opencsw.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Peter FELECAN <pfelecan at opencsw.org> wrote:
>> Maybe "abusive" is a little bit brutal. In fact the word is exactly
>> that: "brutal"; brutal to take ownership of other maintainers packages
>> (this is what you wrote), to convert them to gar (why?) and to say that
>> now they can take them back, and that without me remembering any prior
>> discussion. If I'm wrong I'll be corrected.
>
> They haven't answered bugs filed January 31st, how long do you think
> it is appropriate to wait before taking over a package?


Them not having answered bugs on the bugtracking list, does not make
it okay to skip attempting to contact them directly.


> So, to sum up, we contacted everyone in an official way and we're
> offering everyone to keep ownership of their packages.

It does not sound like you have fully "contacted everyone". Peter F
would seem to be proof of that.


> Note that we
> have not "taken" ownership of anything since nothing has been released
> yet. It's to avoid "taking" ownership from maintainers who are active
> and want to keep their packages I'm trying to contact them this way
> too.

When you wish to take over a package, emailing the general maintainers
list, is not an acceptible as "attempting to contact the maintainer"
either.

It's fine as a first attempt, for a multi-package effort. But it does
not count as, "well i attempted to contact them and didnt get a
reply".