[maemo-developers] Maintainer policy - maintainer has disappeared

[From: Dave Neary]

Hi,

Adam Baxter wrote:
> The maintainer for the zoutube application seems to have disappeared
> from the face of the Earth and there is a critical bug in the stable
> version of zoutube - i.e. it doesn't work anymore.
> 
> There is a fix waiting to be pulled into the maintainer's git
> repository but he cannot be contacted.
> 
> What is Maemo's policy for assigning new maintainers or pushing new
> versions of packages for packages with no current maintainer?

1. Make a best effort to contact him.
2. Ask Maemo admins to make a best effort to contact him.
3. Volunteer to take over maintainership to original maintainer & Maemo
admins

Cheers,
Dave.

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