On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 13:18 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
Trust: If I'm a new contributor who just needed to get X.Y.Z in because
I just started using it on my shiny Fedora Desktop, I may not have any
contact with any other Fedora Contributor. If I don't trust the
provenpackager group with this software, I'm not likely to trust an
unknown packager who asks to be a comaintainer either. In fact, if
there was an over-all group of people who seldom make a mistake and know
packaging and software backward and forward, I'm more likely to entrust
that group with the ability to modify my package than the random packager.
To be fair, when I first proposed new maintainer containment, this above
was my vision for the elevated access group.
Unfortunately FESCo chose to fill that group with a much larger set of
people with nothing but "number of packages" as a requirement.
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Jesse Keating
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