Re: New maintainer situation

["Stephen R. Gore" <sgore@ev1.net>]

Wichert Akkerman wrote on debian-devel-announce:
> 
> As you may have heard or even experienced yourself, Debian's
> new-maintainer team is currently not processing requests. 
> 
> The team wanted to resolve some problems they observed with the way
> Debian maintainership is current handled, and decided to close
> new-maintainer until these have been fixed.
> 
> We are currently working on a new structure for handling new-maintainer
> requests, and hope to have this finished as soon as possible. There will
> be a proposal on this posted on the debian-devel list in the near
> future.
> 
> Once the new structure is in place new-maintainer will be reopened, and
> we will make an announcement.
> 
> Wichert.
> 
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Thank you Wichert.  This is a reasonable announcement describing an
understandable situation, and is far superior to rumor and speculation.

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Steve

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