Patrice Dumas wrote:
Hello,
With Rahul, we prepared a new pollicy which aim is to force maintainers
to answer to easy fix bugs or orphan packages if they fail to do so in a
one month delay. It may look a bit rude, but hopefully it will help
spreading co-maintainership and quicker bugfixes. It is at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RahulSundaram/CollectiveMaintenance
In my opinion it should be added to the non responsive policy at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Policy/NonResponsiveMaintainers
I paste it here. Please comment. It should be proposed to FESCo after
discussion here.
Hmm,
First of all, I agree that non-repsonsive ness to easy bugs and / or
bugs with patches attached is an issue.
But I'm not sure this is a good solution. There are really 2 problems here:
1) The person responsible for the package is letting these bugs linger
2) Others do not fix it, even though they could, because they are afraid
of stepping on each other's toes, as you correctly point out.
I feel that your policy completely fails to address 2), whereas that
might be one of the more important points. For example I don't mind
other people touching my packages _at all_, which can be seen from there
ACL's. So we could have a policy that says that "easy fixes" (whatever
the definition) may be done by anyone with CVS extras without a prior
headsup, when the ACL's allow it. IOW, codify in policy that the ACL
signals how much a developer minds other people touching his packages.
Another possible solution would be a I don't mind my toes getting
stepped on list in the wiki.
Regards,
Hans
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