How does a package become orphaned? (was Re: Attn maintainer: python-paramiko)

[Marco Atzeri]

On 01.12.2022 21:18, Libor Ukropec wrote:
> Dne 01.12.2022 v 20:41 Jon Turney napsal(a):
>> On 17/11/2022 10:24, Libor Ukropec wrote:
>>> Dne 16.11.2022 v 12:52 Thomas Wolff napsal(a):
>>>>
>>>>> What I do not want to do is the violent take over, so I gave some 
>>>>> time to the original owner of the python-paramiko to respond. I 
>>>>> created a bug on  github.com almost 2 weeks ago and so far no 
>>>>> reaction: https://github.com/wildmichael/cygwin/issues/1
>>>> As a general comment, I'd like to point out that "almost 2 weeks" is 
>>>> even less than someone's holiday time may be...
>>>
>>> See above in the thread - author did not react here on cygwin for 
>>> months. What I did, I've found the author on GitHub and contacted him 
>>> there as well.
>>>
>>>  >>Jon Turney: It's undefined how many times we should ping, or how 
>>> long we should wait for a response, but I think that the ~10 months 
>>> that's elapsed here is more than enough!
>>
>> Yeah, 10 months is not 2 weeks.
>>
>> Libor, I've given you maintainer-ship of python-paramiko.
> 
> Jon,
> 
> I did not ask for it officially yet (quite busy and had issues with 
> duplicity that depends on the paramiko itself, so I intentionally waited 
> if something happens).
> 
>  >
>  > If that's not what the desired outcome here, please let me know.
> 
> I wanted that.
> 
>>
>> Sorry for taking so long over this.
>>
>> I guess somebody should ping Michael Wild to ask about the rest of his 
>> packages.
> I already did that 29 days ago, no response yet
> https://github.com/wildmichael/cygwin/issues/1
> 
> The paramiko depends on python-bcrypt and python-nacl so I'd like to ask 
> for their ownership too, otherwise the ownership for paramiko does not 
> make sense.
> 
> If Michael Wild by any chance responds and still would like to maintain 
> those packages, I'll be happy to return them :)
> 

you can ITA  python-nacl

there is little to do for python-bcrypt as newer versions require rust 
and we have no compiler for it.


Regards
Marco