Am Tue, 6 Jul 2010 10:57:06 +0100
schrieb "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones(a)redhat.com>:
On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 10:32:06AM +0200, Sven Lankes wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 09:21:29AM +1000, Chris Jones wrote:
>
> > This seems to be happening a lot lately regarding maintainers
> > and/or co-maintainers losing interest in their projects somewhere
> > along the line and just stopping development without any warning
> > and notification to other members who may be interested.
>
> Maybe we could tweak the pkgdb in a way that a co-maintainer request
> would automatically be granted if it isn't answered within a long
> enough timeframe (say 8 weeks).
+1, good idea.
If this is implemented, the 'next' co-maintainer should become the real
maintainer after another 8 weeks non-commiting by the former maintainer.
For me it doesn't make much sense to be co-maintainer everywhere, but
actually:
1. doing all the tasks alone.
2. when there is a problem with the package, other contact at
first the maintainer, which should be the new one, too.
Maybe a button with 'take the package, when maintainer doesn't want to
keep it' and transfer, when the maintainer agrees or doesn't respond in
the 8 weeks or so?
Thomas