Introducing RFH (again) (Was: Re: Are the GRUB packages maintained or orphaned?)

Robert Millan zeratul2@wanadoo.es
Mon, 10 May 2004 22:43:27 +0200


On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 12:30:03PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 12:11:25PM +1000, Jason Thomas wrote:
> > Hi, grub hasn't been orphaned. It is maintained by a group colaboration
> > on the pkg-grub-devel mailing list. I've had little time to work on grub
> > lately and all the update-grub stuff has been left upto me.
> 
> Isn't this a typical situation to file a RFH[0][1][2] on wnpp? I know, there
> is currently not a single RFH filed, but someone must be the first one.
> Add X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel to ensure that enough people read it.
> If more people did that, it'd be wort the effort to enable all kinds of
> QA pages to show nice overviews of packages that are requesting
> additional help, most likely in the form of co-maintainers (which is
> basically what RFH means most of the time, but not necessarily), just
> like is done now for packages that request a full maintainer
> takeover[4].

I'm filing an RFH on grub.

-- 
Robert Millan

"[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the
thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he
gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work."

 -- J.R.R.T., Ainulindale (Silmarillion)