Op maandag 25 oktober 2010 19:29:18 schreef Luca Berra: > this is a suggestion i already made with mandriva but it landed nowhere, > let's try again. > > At the moment we have 1to1 relationship in all tools between maintainer > and package. But for some packages we have more than one people willing > to work on that package. Besides, for some critical package it may be > useful having more than one person responsible for it. > Also someone might be interested in helping on package foo, but feels > too much inexperienced to take full reponsability for it. Peer review is > important. > > The idea is not associating a package with a single maintainer, but > associate each package to a maintainer-group, say > n...@packages.mageia.org, and let maintainers subscribe to package > maintenance. > > this would result that in case a ticket is opened in bugzilla vs > package, all interested parties would be notified, and start working on > a solution. (this might require a bit of coordination, but maybe just > assigning the bug to a real person is enough to note someone is taking > care of the problem) > > In this case a package will become unmaintained if no-one is subscribed > to the group. > > we could even use refint_nothing in ldap to redirect > n...@packages.mageia.org to unmaintai...@packages.mageia.org when noone > is subscribed to a package. > > Regards, > L.
I am not averse to the idea. however i would also like to have a way to check who's on that list (it could be integrated with http://maint.mageia.org ) perhaps we need to abandon the idea of single maintainer and have "maintainers" (with primary maintainer) ?