[maemo-developers] promotion of orphaned packages

[From: Neal H. Walfield]

At Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:32:47 +0100,
Nicolai Hess wrote:
> Yes, but who decides to transfer the maintainance? Can this only be done by
> the current
> maintainer?
> I doubt most maintainers of orphaned packages are listening to this
> request.

As I understand it, the maintainer gets an email.  If they ignore it
for, say, a week, I bet you could ask Niels Breet to authorize the
request.

Neal