I don't see that giving a name and conferring status actually helps the
underlying issue.

The real problems as I see it are

  the quagga codebase is complicated and undercommented

  there are proposed changes, but relatively few instances of deep,
  thoughtful review and testing.  I see far more proposed patches than
  (other) people who have said that they've tested the patches in some
  particular environment and found them to work.  Or reviewed them to
  the point that they are willing to be jointly responsible for
  introduced bugs.  There's certainly some, but I think we need about 4x
  of that per propsed patch.

So I'd like to see

  proposeed changes have initial patches to add remedial comments so
  that the patch is reasoably reviewable, with the new comments
  explaining why the code is how it is, and the commit messages
  explaining why it's changing

  more people really reviewing (well enough to spot bugs) and testing

And I don't think any special status is necessary or helpful to this.

So I think technical responsibility is already entirely open to the
wider community, and therefore I'm not in favor of your proposal.

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