On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 13:39:43 +0100, Richard wrote:
> So I think it's valid for packages to have 0, 1, 2, or more
> maintainers.
Why 0? Who will be notified about bugzilla tickets? Who will receive
mail sent to the PACKAGE-owner Fedora e-mail alias?
Some mailing list like dumping-ground(a)fedoraproject.org. I am sure
someone can come up with a better name.
For each package in the collection, there ought to be at least (!)
one
maintainer, who wants to be responsible for taking care of the package.
Yes. And everyone who is subscribed to the above mailing list is a
potential maintainer of those packages with 0 principal maintainers.
Great idea.
> If #maintainers == 0 then the package is either just sitting
there (as
> long as there are no serious bugs), or is being best-effort maintained
> by provenpackagers, at least until that becomes a burden and only then
> should the package be dropped.
Sounds like the infamous dumping-ground for packages. Welcome back,
contrib.redhat.com! Or what? "Best-effort maintained" ranging from
"no effort" to "over-ambitious upgrade hell".
+1. Exactly. Good thinking!
Orcan