[Mageia-dev] new mgarepo version

Sat Jul 16 13:09:14 CEST 2011

In data sabato 16 luglio 2011 03:27:18, Michael Scherer ha scritto:
+> The goal of novice is not to add lots of packages to become packagers,
+> but to demonstrate enough knowledge while maintaining them. So I would
+> rather have a system that discourage adding lots of rpms. Ie, if there
+> is a incentive to focus on existing rpms, I think we should use it.
+Good point. But often who want to become a packager,  does it
+to have at least his preferred ones on the system. That's good if he become a 
+maintainer, because he uses them and at least we could hope they won't
+be broken.
+So why should avoid them to import new packages? 
+I agree though to start working on bug reports and fixing existing ones, but
+that is ok now because there are no real maintainers, so we could work on that
+and this, but after....
+
+> >  - bug reports would then be assigned to the mentor instead of the
+> >novice, 
+> >
+> > which would perhaps give a bit more work towards mentor to notify his
+> > novice  about it.
+> 
+> If the novice disappear, then someone should take care of the packages,
+> and it should be the mentor. This way, they will not accept random rpms
+> thinking "this is not my duty to take care".  
+How can we prevent that? even after the novice becomes official packager
+that could happen....
+
+-- 
+	Angelo
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