[Mageia-dev] Maintainers policy

Mon Apr 18 14:24:36 CEST 2011

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com> wrote:
+> 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
+>
+
+The use of reviewboard could be nice for this.
+