Not so much a Freight Train[1] than a "Passenger Train" issue.. In the past few days -- we know SLE15 is in the process of getting rounded up -- I have had two occurrences where SLE maintainers incorrectly believed they were actually full maintainers. Names known but withheld, the words were User with @suse.de address 1 / package 1:
I removed you from this package because I don't know why you were marked as maintainer.
User with @suse.com address 2 / package 2:
note that I'm the maintainer of this package both in openSUSE [sic] and SLE
For the benefit of the doubt, let's just say that both statements were made because people.. could not figure out why the maintainer list is as it is, and what the point of each userid in the <person> list, including their own, was. Part - or even root - of the problem, as I see it, is the OBS XML data forbids specifying any kind of additional fields and also silently truncates <!-- comments --> on save, so there is no way to record the purpose of a given userid. In light of this, I think the SLE lead should talk to the OBS developers right away, some of which are in the same building I understand, gift them with cake and beer to have a solution drawn up in due time. Because, that argument works the same way for me: I don't know why they were marked as maintainer, and I'd rather do without the angry-bull-in-a-porcelain-shop package editing that was caused. [1] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Freight_Train -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org