Re: Losing package maintainers (Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] Retiring packages for F-17)

2012-01-16 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:01:29 +0100 Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de wrote: On 01/16/2012 03:20 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:28:15 +0100 Kevin Koflerkevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Michael Schwendt wrote: However, with the current features of pkgdb, each member of such

Re: Losing package maintainers (Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] Retiring packages for F-17)

2012-01-15 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 01/16/2012 03:20 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:28:15 +0100 Kevin Koflerkevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Michael Schwendt wrote: However, with the current features of pkgdb, each member of such a group would need to subscribe to the package in pkgdb. Not just for commit

Losing package maintainers (Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] Retiring packages for F-17)

2012-01-14 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 06:10:48 +0100, RC (Ralf) wrote: Even in the scenario of project-wide write-access to packages, there must be someone to decide when to perform an upgrade. ... but this someone doesn't have to be an individual nor does it have to be the package maintainer. It can be a

Re: Losing package maintainers (Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] Retiring packages for F-17)

2012-01-14 Thread Kevin Kofler
Michael Schwendt wrote: However, with the current features of pkgdb, each member of such a group would need to subscribe to the package in pkgdb. Not just for commit access, but also for someone to monitor bugzilla and the package-owner mail alias, which is convenient for team-work, too.

Re: Losing package maintainers (Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] Retiring packages for F-17)

2012-01-14 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
* Kevin Kofler [14/01/2012 22:06] : That's exactly why we need proper support for group ownership in pkgdb. I believe that this isn't going to happen unless the people who want it actually submit patches for pkgdb to implement it. Should it be none the less implemented by other people, there's