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 this approach worked quite good in Mandriva in the past. > I still remember misc telling me "please don't break too much" . For the few years I maintained packages there > I haven't seen a single case of someone abusing his powers. Well, it's worth noting that while I also don't remember a case of anyone _intentionally_ abusing powers, there were cases where someone would make a change the nominal owner of the package had considered and actively decided not to make, or people would override each other's whitespace preferences, or things like that. None insurmountable, but it's worth noting there'd likely be some friction as a result of such a change, and people would need to learn appropriate ways of dealing with it. (I found that when there was some change I specifically didn't want to happen to a package, it was best to add an explicit comment threatening various hideous consequences to anyone who made such a change. Viz the top of http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/libopensync/current/SPECS/libopensync.spec?revision=679177&view=markup .) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
