[Mageia-dev] Review Of Bugs

Mon Oct 31 22:44:56 CET 2011

Le lundi 31 octobre 2011 à 21:06 +0000, Colin Guthrie a écrit :
+> 'Twas brillig, and Maarten Vanraes at 31/10/11 20:55 did gyre and gimble:
+> > Op maandag 31 oktober 2011 21:34:04 schreef D.Morgan:
+> > [...]
+> >>> But seriously, if we can't maintain/fix something like chromium-browser,
+> >>> we should just drop it completely, maybe have a get-chromium package
+> >>> instead
+> >>
+> >> why ? i package it regularly and tvignaud too.
+> >> what about dropping all packages that have bugs ?  this is just stupid
+> >> and you should first ask ppl packaging it before giving such ideas
+> > 
+> > ok, i get it, (allthough i did say "IF") I guess it's a misguided attempt of 
+> > myself to get more maintainership...
+> 
+> I think the attempts to get more official partnerships by Samuel and
+> yourself are very valuable, but by the same token, I think we need to
+> accept that having a single maintainer for some packages just doens't
+> make sense.
+> 
+> For example things like initscripts, udev, systemd etc. should be
+> maintained by a "core" team, and IMO, not a single person (tho' if
+> someone steps up and is proven to be reliable then this is obviously not
+> a bad thing per-se!). I'm certainly happy to help out here.
+
+Well, so far, the system do not support this.
+
+So either this supposed team is able to organise itself to have one of
+the member to act as a gate to take maitainership and dispatch task, or
+someone patch the maintdb script to have more than one person. 
+
+As long as "being managed by several people" will be seen the same way
+as "maintained by nobody", we will have the same problem as mandriva.
+
+Being maintained officially by someone do not prevent others to help. 
+So I do not see any good reason to have them marked as nobody.
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
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