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

[andre999]

Anssi Hannula a écrit :
> 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 :)
>
I like it too :)

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André