On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 13:39:43 +0100, Richard wrote: > >> So I think it's valid for packages to have 0, 1, 2, or more >> maintainers. > > Why 0? Who will be notified about bugzilla tickets? Who will receive > mail sent to the PACKAGE-owner Fedora e-mail alias? > Some mailing list like dumping-ground@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx I am sure someone can come up with a better name. > For each package in the collection, there ought to be at least (!) one > maintainer, who wants to be responsible for taking care of the package. > Yes. And everyone who is subscribed to the above mailing list is a potential maintainer of those packages with 0 principal maintainers. Great idea. >> If #maintainers == 0 then the package is either just sitting there (as >> long as there are no serious bugs), or is being best-effort maintained >> by provenpackagers, at least until that becomes a burden and only then >> should the package be dropped. > > Sounds like the infamous dumping-ground for packages. Welcome back, > contrib.redhat.com! Or what? "Best-effort maintained" ranging from > "no effort" to "over-ambitious upgrade hell". +1. Exactly. Good thinking! Orcan -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
