View of non maintained packages

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 14, 2008, at 03:23, Rolf Würdemann wrote:

>> I think what we need are committers who are interested in each  
>> category of software. I occasionally look through the unassigned  
>> tickets and either try to handle them (new ports, or patches for  
>> unmaintained ports) or assign them to their ports' maintainers.  
>> But some tickets I don't deal with, like most tickets for Python  
>> modules or most Gnome tickets, because I don't use or sufficiently  
>> understand Python and Gnome. We need committers who are interested  
>> in and proficient in Python and Gnome (and maybe some other  
>> categories) who will deal with those tickets.
>
> *g* - o.k. - thats the better approach (having people which where  
> insterested in each category of software
> and feel responsible ;)
>
> But a problem will be a bug fix that's in the ticket (and the  
> fixing one (maintainer or other person)
> have no possibillity to change the status - than we have to look  
> throught all tickets complete or
> the fixing one must open a new ticket (which is perhaps stated in  
> the documentation ;)

I didn't quite understand your last paragraph?