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

Sun Sep 25 05:12:56 CEST 2011

Anssi Hannula a écrit :
+> 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 :)
+>
+I like it too :)
+
+-- 
+André
+