Quake3 security issue and non-responsive maintainer: Xavier Lamien

[Rakesh Pandit]

On 15 May 2010 22:13, Till Maas wrote:
> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 09:29:37PM +0530, Rakesh Pandit wrote:
>> On 15 May 2010 21:07, Till Maas wrote:
>
>> > The upstream release monitoring tool (formerly fever) is not really used
>> > to identify such packages, because there is no process to identify
>> > non-uptodate packages like there is a process to identify old FTBS-bugs.
>> >
>>
>> Yes, and I think it is time to draft a proposal for same. Remember
>> Seth also had a script (which he ran quite recently to figure our
>> concerned packages).
>
> A current problem I see with using upstream release monitoring is that
> there is no easy way to query which bugs are ignored, because it is
> perfectly valid to not touch the bug as a maintainer but only update the
> package. This will avoid a new bug to be filed, but the maintainer will
> still be notified with a new comment.
>

Yeah.

Between thanks for your nice work on upstream release monitoring.

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