On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 12:49, Greg Stein wrote:
> Oh, the data is always in CVS, or maybe a CHANGES file, or somewhere. But
> if the code gets abandoned, then you could always just drop it on the
> floor. If it got integrated, then there is certainly a worry about how it
> got there without a maintainer. Or if it *had* a maintainer, but they
> left, then why aren't other developers taking responsibility to maintain
> it or to jettison it.
The situation essentially arises from something I have observed in ant-land.
There are several tasks - usually integration with external systems such as
perforce - that none of the developers actually use. As a consequence it is
difficult for ant-dev to maintain without help.
There was developers who will maintain these parts but other (the lead)
ant-dev peeps felt uncomfortable with me nominating these people because they
essentially were only developing a small portion of the code - fine grained
permissions would have changed their minds but Apache does not have the
required infrastructure.
There are plenty of similar cases in ant - to the point where I was
semi-regularly applying patches to code that seemed okay but I had no way of
testing - after the submitter had complained loudly for long enough :)
Usually I would either okay it with the original developers, notify the
original develoeprs or use the submitters as guinea pigs and it seemed to
work. Removing the author tags would make it soooooo much harder to do this.
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Cheers,
Peter Donald
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