On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 4:59 AM, Olav Vitters <o...@vitters.nl> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:21:17PM -0500, Ray Strode wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Olav Vitters <o...@vitters.nl> wrote: >> > 3. Access is determined using "doap" files >> > 4. If you're not in the doap file of that module, you cannot upload >> It's pretty common for people not listed as maintainers in the doap >> files to do releases, especially for the lesser maintained modules. I >> don't think that's a bad thing, either. > > Whom? Developers of the module who aren't listed as maintainer, or just > a random person wanting to release a new tarball of e.g. bonobo or > libgnome? > > Note that ftp-release-list does say when it is a non-maintainer upload. > It adds the header X-Maintainer-Upload: True if it was uploaded by a > maintainer, False if not.
I have done plenty of uploads of not-my-own modules over the years, eg polkit-gnome releases for David, releases for less-actively-maintained modules like libnotify or gnome-screensaver, etc. But then, I'm in the release team, so I would be able to continue doing that. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list