[Mageia-dev] maintainer groups

Mon Oct 25 19:44:19 CEST 2010

Le lundi 25 octobre 2010 à 19:29 +0200, Luca Berra a écrit :
+> 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)
+
++1 to the idea. 
+I just wonder how it articulate on bugzilla side ( ie, we should try to
+avoid having a patch on bugzilla side, as this is usually causing
+trouble ). 
+Ie, if I want to take care of a bug report, I would likely assign it to
+me, no ?
+
+Wouldn't it better to use cc for that ?
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+