[Mageia-dev] Maintainers policy

[Dexter Morgan]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:17, Funda Wang <fundawang at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2011/4/14 Anne nicolas <ennael at mageia.org>:
>>> Hi there
>>>
>>> Following tonight's meeting, we will start one week discussion about
>>> maintainers policy. Some questions to be discussed:
>>>
>>> - shall we have ACL's on svn, submits?
>>> - what about having co-maintenership or teams? How shall we manage this?
>>> - what about sensitive packages ?
>>> ...
>>>
>>> Pleas make any comments and proposals we could discus to build it.
>>> Final decisions will be taken during next packagers meeting (20th of
>>> april)
>>
>> If we are about to stick to subversion, then only maintainer could
>> submit certain package. Of course, if package don't have maintainer,
>> then anybody could submit it.
>
> As a maintainer, I would like to be at least notified when someone
> updates one of my packages
>
>> If we will turn to git, then everybody could have his own clone, but
>> the merge request should be reviewed by maintainer. After merging,
>> anybody could submit it. The problem is that, we couldn't assure every
>> package have a valid maintainer.
>
> Even if git would make it easier, I think it would in any case be nice
> for people to be able to upload somewhere changes for review, and for
> maintainer to easily apply them if correct
>

The use of reviewboard could be nice for this.