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

Fri Sep 16 23:37:01 CEST 2011

On 16.09.2011 19:48, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+> '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.
+
+This seems like a nice idea :)
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
+