[Mageia-dev] maintainer groups

Mon Oct 25 19:29:18 CEST 2010

this is a suggestion i already made with mandriva but it landed nowhere,
+let's try again.
+
+At the moment we have 1to1 relationship in all tools between maintainer
+and package. But for some packages we have more than one people willing
+to work on that package. Besides, for some critical package it may be
+useful having more than one person responsible for it.
+Also someone might be interested in helping on package foo, but feels
+too much inexperienced to take full reponsability for it. Peer review is
+important.
+
+The idea is not associating a package with a single maintainer, but
+associate each package to a maintainer-group, say
+NAME at packages.mageia.org, and let maintainers subscribe to package
+maintenance.
+
+this would result that in case a ticket is opened in bugzilla vs
+package, all interested parties would be notified, and start working on
+a solution. (this might require a bit of coordination, but maybe just
+assigning the bug to a real person is enough to note someone is taking
+care of the problem)
+
+In this case a package will become unmaintained if no-one is subscribed
+to the group.
+
+we could even use refint_nothing in ldap to redirect
+NAME at packages.mageia.org to unmaintained at packages.mageia.org when noone
+is subscribed to a package.
+
+Regards,
+L.
+
+-- 
+Luca Berra -- bluca at vodka.it
+