[pkg-otr-team] MIA status of David Spreen?

Solveig debian at solveig.org
Thu Mar 6 19:55:57 UTC 2014


Hi David!

Glad that you join, even with little time :)
You can subscribe to the mailing list[1] and join the Alioth project[2],
and look other interesting ressources on the wiki page[3].

[1] https://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-otr-team
[2] https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-otr/
[3] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/OTR

Don't hesitate to ask or suggest things!

Cheers,

 Solveig

David Spreen:
> Hi Holger and Others,
> 
> First of all, apologies for dropping out of contact on this, and thanks
> for picking up the work on the package. I have been incredibly busy, and
> don't think I have opened this email folder in a long time.
> 
> Unless this is still out of the question, I would love to contribute to
> the team effort, but since time is thin, I am not sure how much I can
> actually devote to this.
> 
> Best,
> David
> 
> On 02/15/2014 03:38 PM, Holger Levsen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> adding David to CC:, I think that's nicer and appropriate...
>>
>> On Samstag, 15. Februar 2014, intrigeri wrote:
>>> Stuart Prescott wrote (13 Feb 2014 22:11:26 GMT) :
>>>> Looking at https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/MIATeam , we're well
>>
>> after having read this now...
>>
>>>> beyond "first/second contact" and "nice" here though -- in my
>>>> message, I
>>>> suggested orphaning the packages and requested that David let us know
>>>> what is plans were in a two-week period. But there is also the
>>>> "inactive" tag in that message.
>> [...]
>>>> I suspect it's time to send David an email thanking him for his past
>>>> contributions, marking anon-proxy as O and prodding for removal of him
>>>> from d/control for the others.
>>
>> the orphaning for anon-proxy has happenend (by Ana iirc), so according
>> to the
>> above MIATeam wiki page we're now in the 3 months waiting period before
>> sending David a "good-bye+thanks" mail and asking DAM to remove his
>> account.
>>
>>>> intrigeri: do you want to take over in this process (since I've clearly
>>>> dropped the ball on pursuing this one :( )
>>> I'm sure we (as the pkg-otr team, once it formally exists) will take
>>> care of removing David from debian/control in irssi-plugin-otr, once
>>> the "thank you" email is sent.
>>
>> I think we (the pkg-otr team to be started...) can *now* start to
>> maintain
>> irssi-plugin-otr (and not wait for the good-bye+thank you mail) and...
>>
>>> But I'm afraid I cannot reasonably do more personally on following-up
>>> with this MIA process, sorry. Anyone else?
>>
>> ...in three months someone from the MIA team should finish the MIA
>> process for
>> David, unless he pops up and becomes active (for example in the
>> pkg-otr team!)
>> again, of course!
>>
>> That's at least how I understand
>> https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/MIATeam
>> and the actions so far.
>>
>>
>> cheers,
>>     Holger, who also don't want to become active in the MIA team (my
>> plate is
>>             too full already...) but as said I dont think it's needed
>> to start
>>             team-maintaining irssi-plugin-otr
>>




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