- <sect id="qa-effort">Quality Assurance Effort
- <p>
-Even though there is a dedicated group of people for Quality
-Assurance, QA duties are not reserved solely for them. You can
-participate in this effort by keeping your packages as bug-free as
-possible, and as lintian-clean (see <ref id="lintian-reports">) as
-possible. If you do not find that possible, then you should consider
-orphaning some of your packages (see <ref
-id="orphaning">). Alternatively, you may ask the help of other people
-in order to catch up the backlog of bugs that you have (you can ask
-for help on &email-debian-qa; or &email-debian-devel;).
-
- <sect id="mia-qa">Dealing with unreachable maintainers
- <p>
-If you notice that a package is lacking maintenance, you should
-make sure the maintainer is active and will continue to work on
-their packages. Try contacting them yourself.
- <p>
-If you do not get a reply after a few weeks you should collect all
-useful information about this maintainer. Start by logging in to
-the <url id="http://db.debian.org" name="Debian Developer's Database">
-and doing a full search to check whether the maintainer is on vacation
-and when they were last seen. Collect any important package names
-they maintain and any Release Critical bugs filled against them.
- <p>
-Send all this information to &email-debian-qa;, in order to let the
-QA people do whatever is needed.