What does one do when a package maintainer is unresponsive ?

[steve]

Hi,

What is the course of action to be followed if a package maintainer appears to 
be unresponsive ?

Specifically, I speak of the usb_modeswitch package, for which there has been an 
update-to-latest-upstream request pending for sometime now ...

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=usb_modeswitch&prod...

In the BZ that I submitted[1], I even offered to co-maintain or take over 
ownership of this package in case the package maintainer is hard pressed for 
time, without receiving any response.

I would like to see this bz fixed before I can start pester^Whelping out on BZ 
515412 [2], which is causing me a lot of inconvenience.

cheers,
- steve

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=519332
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515412

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[Pierre-Yves Chibon]

On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 13:03 +0530, steve wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  What is the course of action to be followed if a package maintainer appears to 
>  be unresponsive ? 
The general guidelines are described there:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Policy/NonResponsiveMain...

Best regards,

Pierre

[steve]

On 09/16/2009 01:15 PM, Pierre-Yves wrote:
>  On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 13:03 +0530, steve wrote:
> >  Hi,
> >
> >  What is the course of action to be followed if a package maintainer appears to
> >  be unresponsive ?
>
>  The general guidelines are described there:
>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Policy/NonResponsiveMain... 
Thanks Pierre !

cheers,
- steve
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