&email-debian-devel-announce; and the announcement explains
which area will be the focus of the party: usually they focus on release
critical bugs but it may happen that they decide to help finish a major upgrade
-(like a new perl version which requires recompilation of all the binary
-modules).
+(like a new <command>perl</command> version which requires recompilation of all
+the binary modules).
</para>
<para>
The rules for non-maintainer uploads differ during the parties because the
maintainers who are deemed Missing In Action is recorded. When a member of the
QA group contacts an inactive maintainer or finds more information about one,
this is recorded in the MIA database. This system is available in
-/org/qa.debian.org/mia on the host qa.debian.org, and can be queried with a
-tool known as <command>mia-query</command>. Use <command>mia-query --help</command>
-to see how to query the database. If you find that no information has been
-recorded about an inactive maintainer yet, or that you can add more
-information, you should generally proceed as follows.
+<filename>/org/qa.debian.org/mia</filename> on the host <literal>qa.debian.org
+</literal>, and can be queried with the <command>mia-query</command> tool.
+Use <command>mia-query --help</command> to see how to query the database.
+If you find that no information has been recorded about an inactive maintainer yet,
+or that you can add more information, you should generally proceed as follows.
</para>
<para>
The first step is to politely contact the maintainer, and wait a reasonable
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
-The
echelon information available through the <ulink
+The
<literal>echelon</literal> information available through the <ulink
url="&url-debian-db;">developers' LDAP database</ulink>, which indicates
when the developer last posted to a Debian mailing list. (This includes
-uploads via debian-*-changes lists.) Also, remember to check whether the
-maintainer is marked as on vacation in the database.
+mails about uploads distributed via the &email-debian-devel-changes; list.)
+Also, remember to check whether the maintainer is marked as on vacation in
+the database.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>
A bit of a problem are packages which were sponsored — the maintainer is not
-an official Debian developer. The echelon information is not available for
-sponsored people, for example, so you need to find and contact the Debian
-developer who has actually uploaded the package. Given that they signed the
-package, they're responsible for the upload anyhow, and are likely to know what
-happened to the person they sponsored.
+an official Debian developer. The <literal>echelon</literal> information is not
+available for sponsored people, for example, so you need to find and contact the
+Debian developer who has actually uploaded the package. Given that they signed
+the package, they're responsible for the upload anyhow, and are likely to know
+what happened to the person they sponsored.
</para>
<para>
It is also allowed to post a query to &email-debian-devel;,
</para>
<para>
If you are interested in working in the MIA team, please have a look at the
-README file in /org/qa.debian.org/mia on qa.debian.org where the technical
-details and the MIA procedures are documented and contact
-&email-mia;.
+README file in <filename>/org/qa.debian.org/mia</filename> on <literal>
+qa.debian.org</literal> where the technical details and the MIA procedures are
+documented and contact &email-mia;.
</para>
</section>
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