[Mageia-dev] [Mageia-discuss] MANDATORY READ : 7 days before misc unleashes CERBERUS !

Fri Sep 16 15:39:00 CEST 2011

Le vendredi 16 septembre 2011 à 12:44 +0200, Guillaume Rousse a écrit :
+> Le 16/09/2011 11:47, Sander Lepik a écrit :
+> > 15.09.2011 21:43, Maarten Vanraes kirjutas:
+> >> I have a script ready to set the last comittor (that's a full
+> >> packager) as
+> >> maintainer. perhaps it can be activated before the GREAT PURGE.
+> > That's not so good idea. What we maybe can do is that we send out a
+> > warning that if you commit to a package after the warning and the
+> > package has no maintainer yet then you become one. So that people would
+> > first check what they get on their name. Many packages were imported by
+> > Anne, i'm not sure that she's going to maintain them all. :)
+> >
+> > I would do something like that:
+> > 2 months of warning period, if you touch package that has no maintainer
+> > you become its maintainer. After 2 months we start dropping those
+> > packages that have still no maintainer.
+> This whole idea of 'touch a package, become its maintainer' assumes than 
+> anyone modifying a package has an obvious interest in it. 
+
+Then we can increase the heuristic, like "upgrade to a new version", or
+"do several commit on it". Someone upgrading a package either :
+- is interested in it for the package ( and thus would be a maintainer )
+- is interested into having it upgraded for using on another package
+( and thus, as a user of the rpm for another rpm, has a interest to not
+make it disappear ).
+
+And i doubt that someone would do X commit on a rpm if not interested in
+it.
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+