On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 10:54 +0200, Dirk Mueller wrote:

On Thursday 10 April 2008, Hans Petter Jansson wrote:

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Is it the same general format as the dist mails I get to hpj@suse.de? I get ~100 of those on some days, usually one per change per product per architecture, e.g:

Many thanks for posting internal email to a public mailing list.

Dirk, if I weren't more familiar with the language barrier you face, I'd think you were being sarcastic! That was part of a mail sent to me by a script building a GPL package I maintain in a public Linux distribution. It contains no secrets whatsoever.

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That aside, I'm not sure it's good process to assume you can drop someone else's package if he fails to respond to a generated mail. For a decision like that, it might be better to require the maintainer's explicit consent, to make sure he's in the loop - and not on vacation or otherwise missing mails.

How do you expect to get maintainers consent if the maintainer is a group of people, and none of them answering?

Well, usually you poke the responsible person or persons directly. For instance: "Hey, could you sign off on this package drop, please? Thanks." Most likely, you wouldn't have to do that if the involved parties knew the process was opt-in, though. -- Hans Petter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org