On Thursday 02 February 2012 17:56:16 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
> there have been a number of packages masked lately due to lack of
> maintainer. However, their metadata.xml does not list
> maintainer-needed@g.o which I think should be the first step in
> searching for a new maintainer.

if there is no <herd> and no <maintainer>, then "maintainer-needed@g.o" is 
implicit.  why do we need to explicitly list it ?
-mike