[maemo-developers] Supertesters - Make, accept, nominations

From: Neal H. Walfield neal at walfield.org
Date: Thu Feb 16 15:56:16 EET 2012
At Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:44:07 +0100,
Pali Rohár wrote:
> We (Maemo Community) really need people with ability to promote packages which 
> do not maintain (e.g not on maintainer list). See how log took to promote 
> package rootsh, version 1.8 to Extras (more than year?). Old version in Extras 
> had critical bug which cause not possible to uninstall package. And maintainer 
> abandoned Maemo community, so nobody had permission for it!
> 
> I would like to see permission for promoting packages which I update and not 
> wait while old maintainer give me needed permisstion!

This is a good point.  It needs to be easier to adopt unmaintained
packages.
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