On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 11:18:59AM -0400, Brett Lentz wrote:
On 09/07/12 08:40 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>On Mon, 09 Jul 2012 09:54:38 +0200
>Matej Cepl <mcepl(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
>>On 06/07/12 22:55, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>>> Package html401-dtds (orphan)
>>> comaintained by: gnat
>>
>>Does it mean, we won't have HTML 4.01 DTDs packaged in Fedora? That
>>sounds bad. Also, how can orphan be comaintained? Won't comaintainer
>>be automatically elevated to a maintainer?
>
>There's no setup to do that automatically, it's up to the comaintainer
>to note that the maintainer orphaned the package and take ownership.
>
>Normally you would think if you were co-maintaining something you would
>notice if it was orphaned I would think...
>
>kevin
>
-1
That's poor app design and, IMO, a bug.
The software *should* allow the maintainer to relinquish responsiblities and
either A) designate a new maintainer OR B) have maintainership automatically
shift to the next co-maintainer (for simplicity, this could be based on date commit
rights were granted to
the package's repo)
Both use cases should be supported because allowing a co-maintained package to
be orphaned without the consent of *ALL* maintainers makes no sense.
We had (B) setup at one time but without also having (A) it was more of
a bug than a feature. fchiulli has done work to enable (A) in the
development branch of pkgdb but someone needs to get enough 'round 'tuits to
stabilize a release....
-Toshio