Non-responsive maintainer fast track procedure for libsndfile

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 09:21:29 +1000
Chris Jones <chrisjones at comcen.com.au> wrote:

> This seems to be happening a lot lately regarding maintainers and/or
> co-maintainers losing interest in their projects somewhere along the
> line and just stopping development without any warning and
> notification to other members who may be interested.

Yeah, the current process is not ideal, as it not only requires some
maintainer to notice that they are gone, but be interested enough to
start a process and follow through on it. 

> I am wondering, is the process efficient enough for other willing
> developers to take over development of unplanned orphaned and
> unmaintained code from unresponsive developers/maintainers and
> co-maintainers?

I think it could be better, and there are some good ideas later in this
thread. ;) 

kevin
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