AWOL Maintainer: Krzysztof Kurzawski

[Debarshi Ray]

> That's because *you* didn't need to be sponsored to reinstate the package.

Suppose there is a newcomer named Foo. So here are the various options
open to take over an orphaned or "maintainer-is-AWOL" package.

i) Follow the entire process for taking over an orphan or the AWOL process.

ii) In case of an urgency, ask an existing packager [1] to commit the
Spec file changes on your behalf while (i) is going on. The
converstation can happen in IRC or through mailing lists.

Isn't this adequate?

Happy hacking,
Debarshi

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/PackageStatus
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