[Mageia-dev] [Mageia-discuss] MANDATORY READ : 7 days before misc unleashes CERBERUS !

[Anssi Hannula]

On 16.09.2011 19:48, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Michael Scherer at 16/09/11 14:39 did gyre and gimble:
>> Le vendredi 16 septembre 2011 à 12:44 +0200, Guillaume Rousse a écrit :
>>> Le 16/09/2011 11:47, Sander Lepik a écrit :
>>>> 15.09.2011 21:43, Maarten Vanraes kirjutas:
>>>>> I have a script ready to set the last comittor (that's a full
>>>>> packager) as
>>>>> maintainer. perhaps it can be activated before the GREAT PURGE.
>>>> That's not so good idea. What we maybe can do is that we send out a
>>>> warning that if you commit to a package after the warning and the
>>>> package has no maintainer yet then you become one. So that people would
>>>> first check what they get on their name. Many packages were imported by
>>>> Anne, i'm not sure that she's going to maintain them all. :)
>>>>
>>>> I would do something like that:
>>>> 2 months of warning period, if you touch package that has no maintainer
>>>> you become its maintainer. After 2 months we start dropping those
>>>> packages that have still no maintainer.
>>> This whole idea of 'touch a package, become its maintainer' assumes than 
>>> anyone modifying a package has an obvious interest in it. 
>>
>> Then we can increase the heuristic, like "upgrade to a new version", or
>> "do several commit on it". Someone upgrading a package either :
>> - is interested in it for the package ( and thus would be a maintainer )
>> - is interested into having it upgraded for using on another package
>> ( and thus, as a user of the rpm for another rpm, has a interest to not
>> make it disappear ).
>>
>> And i doubt that someone would do X commit on a rpm if not interested in
>> it.
> 
> 
> Are heuristics a good idea? How about just making mgarepo ask you if you
> want to become the maintainer with a Y/n option (Y being default) when
> you call submit on an unmaintained package.
> 
> This should be simple enough that people genuinely maintaining it can
> just hit return and also easy enough to opt out in the case of drive by
> upgrades.

This seems like a nice idea :)

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Anssi Hannula