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

Fri Sep 16 18:48:20 CEST 2011

'Twas brillig, and Michael Scherer at 16/09/11 14:39 did gyre and gimble:
+> 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.
+
+
+Are heuristics a good idea? How about just making mgarepo ask you if you
+want to become the maintainer with a Y/n option (Y being default) when
+you call submit on an unmaintained package.
+
+This should be simple enough that people genuinely maintaining it can
+just hit return and also easy enough to opt out in the case of drive by
+upgrades.
+
+Col
+
+
+-- 
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+Colin Guthrie
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