[Mageia-dev] Maintainers policy

Mon Apr 18 10:53:34 CEST 2011

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:17, Funda Wang <fundawang at gmail.com> wrote:
+> 2011/4/14 Anne nicolas <ennael at mageia.org>:
+>> Hi there
+>>
+>> Following tonight's meeting, we will start one week discussion about
+>> maintainers policy. Some questions to be discussed:
+>>
+>> - shall we have ACL's on svn, submits?
+>> - what about having co-maintenership or teams? How shall we manage this?
+>> - what about sensitive packages ?
+>> ...
+>>
+>> Pleas make any comments and proposals we could discus to build it.
+>> Final decisions will be taken during next packagers meeting (20th of
+>> april)
+>
+> If we are about to stick to subversion, then only maintainer could
+> submit certain package. Of course, if package don't have maintainer,
+> then anybody could submit it.
+
+As a maintainer, I would like to be at least notified when someone
+updates one of my packages
+
+> If we will turn to git, then everybody could have his own clone, but
+> the merge request should be reviewed by maintainer. After merging,
+> anybody could submit it. The problem is that, we couldn't assure every
+> package have a valid maintainer.
+
+Even if git would make it easier, I think it would in any case be nice
+for people to be able to upload somewhere changes for review, and for
+maintainer to easily apply them if correct
+