Re: Dropping the ownership model

2011-11-24 Thread Stanislav Ochotnicky
Excerpts from Kevin Kofler's message of Tue Nov 22 19:24:22 +0100 2011: Miloslav Trmač wrote: I wouldn't want to get rid of the ownership model altogether, I think there should be a specific person responsible for handling bug reports/RFEs. When a group is responsible to handle something

Dropping the ownership model

2011-11-22 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
What do people see as pros and cons continuing to use the current package ownership model? Would it be practical to dropping it altogether which in essence would make every contributor an proven packager? Would it be viable to move to something like language SIG based ownership of packages?

Re: Dropping the ownership model

2011-11-22 Thread Miloslav Trmač
2011/11/22 Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com: What do people see as pros and cons continuing to use the current package ownership model? Would it be practical to dropping it altogether which in essence would make every contributor an proven packager? Allowing any packager to commit to

Re: Dropping the ownership model

2011-11-22 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/22/2011 05:59 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: 2011/11/22 Jóhann B. Guðmundssonjohan...@gmail.com: What do people see as pros and cons continuing to use the current package ownership model? Would it be practical to dropping it altogether which in essence would make every contributor an proven

Re: Dropping the ownership model

2011-11-22 Thread Aleksandar Kurtakov
Subject: Dropping the ownership model What do people see as pros and cons continuing to use the current package ownership model? Would it be practical to dropping it altogether which in essence would make every contributor an proven packager? Well, everyone becoming a proven packager

Re: Dropping the ownership model

2011-11-22 Thread Kevin Kofler
Miloslav Trmač wrote: I wouldn't want to get rid of the ownership model altogether, I think there should be a specific person responsible for handling bug reports/RFEs. When a group is responsible to handle something not really pleasant to do, often no single member of that group feels

Re: Dropping the ownership model

2011-11-22 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 11/22/2011 06:51 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: What do people see as pros and cons continuing to use the current package ownership model? ownership = responsibility Would it be practical to dropping it altogether which in essence would make every contributor an proven packager? No.

Re: Dropping the ownership model

2011-11-22 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:51:31 + Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: What do people see as pros and cons continuing to use the current package ownership model? Would it be practical to dropping it altogether which in essence would make every contributor an proven packager?

Re: Dropping the ownership model

2011-11-22 Thread Jon Ciesla
Subject: Dropping the ownership model What do people see as pros and cons continuing to use the current package ownership model? Would it be practical to dropping it altogether which in essence would make every contributor an proven packager? Well, everyone becoming a proven packager

Re: Dropping the ownership model

2011-11-22 Thread Jef Spaleta
2011/11/22 Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com: What do people see as pros and cons continuing to use the current package ownership model? I can't speak for anyone else. But for me I'm more than willing to see other contributors work with me to fix things in packages that I own. I'll even

Re: Dropping the ownership model

2011-11-22 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:51:31 +, JBG (Jóhann) wrote: What do people see as pros and cons continuing to use the current package ownership model? Understand a package's owners as some sort of micro-SIG. The people who sign up as a package's team of owners are the ones who want to be

Re: Dropping the ownership model

2011-11-22 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/22/2011 06:46 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:51:31 + Jóhann B. Guðmundssonjohan...@gmail.com wrote: What do people see as pros and cons continuing to use the current package ownership model? Would it be practical to dropping it altogether which in essence would

Re: Dropping the ownership model

2011-11-22 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 13:20 -0500, Aleksandar Kurtakov wrote: Would it be practical to dropping it altogether which in essence would make every contributor an proven packager? Well, everyone becoming a proven packager is going too far from the beginning. Though I have to say that

Re: Dropping the ownership model

2011-11-22 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
* Jóhann B. Guðmundsson [22/11/2011 19:28] : What do people see as pros and cons continuing to use the current package ownership model? Pro: it enforces responsibility. The way things currently work, it's relatively obvious whose work it is to fix a given bug. Con: the thing that kicked off

Re: Dropping the ownership model

2011-11-22 Thread Henrik Nordström
tis 2011-11-22 klockan 17:51 + skrev Jóhann B. Guðmundsson: What do people see as pros and cons continuing to use the current package ownership model? ownership is some times misappropriated with others doing all the work, but it's also of little practical meaning in the end. Would