[Mageia-dev] buildsystem => maintainers db link test

Wed Mar 23 18:00:40 CET 2011

On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Romain d'Alverny wrote:
+
+> 
+> Misc righly pointed out that:
+>  * someone triggering a massive rebuild may not want to be seen as a
+> maintainer of packages uploaded by this; several possible solutions:
+>    - first uploader is set as the maintainer by default;
+>    - this will be manually editable from the maintdb app anyway;
+>    - would a specific flag be raised in the buildsystem (or a package)
+> when such a massive rebuild is triggered?
+>    - instead of strict associations, we can associate maintainership
+> by frequency of uploads/activity on a given package (unless massive
+> rebuilds are triggered more often by a single packager than "regular"
+> package uploads by the actual maintainer)
+>  * submissions stats publishing may require your validation (and
+> actually, for that specifically and future topics, we'll need to see
+> how we can publish contributors activity stats through our platform -
+> as a de-facto feature or as a preference, per contributor).
+
+I think submissions stats can be interesting to keep, to see who is the
+most active on a package. But comaintainers should not be added
+automatically when package is submitted by someone. For instance you
+don't want to become comaintainer of a package because you fixed a typo
+in the description.
+
+I think becoming comaintainer should be something that you decide, not
+something done automatically.
+
+