[Mageia-dev] maintainer groups

Mon Oct 25 20:17:51 CEST 2010

Op maandag 25 oktober 2010 19:29:18 schreef Luca Berra:
+> 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.
+
+
+I am not averse to the idea.
+
+however i would also like to have a way to check who's on that list (it could 
+be integrated with http://maint.mageia.org ) perhaps we need to abandon the 
+idea of single maintainer and have "maintainers" (with primary maintainer) ?
+