Re: Make pkgdb grant co-maintainer status automatically? (was Re: Non-responsive maintainer fast track procedure for libsndfile)

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Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> I think this is another problem with pkgdb or Fedora.  Why is there a
> maintainer ("owner"?) and co-maintainers, rather than just having all
> co-maintainers be equal?

Good point. I think, just like you, that there should be a list of owners 
rather than just 1 owner.

> As people know, my default position is for inclusion: we should try to
> include as many packages in Fedora that we can, except where there is
> a legal or insuperable technical problem with that.
> 
> So I think it's valid for packages to have 0, 1, 2, or more
> maintainers.
> 
> 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.

This is really a separate issue, but FWIW, I agree with you on this point as 
well.

        Kevin Kofler

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