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

[Michael Scherer]

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.
-- 
Michael Scherer