On 02/02/2016 03:59 AM, Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar wrote:
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> I wonder if we should more promote to active maintainers that they set
> themselves as a reviewer of a package; would that stop a prj maintainer
> to step in and accept within hours? (might be worthy to explore - I for
> one had not the worst experiences with this)
Well I have run into a few cases where it does not work, i.e. even
though I have set myself as a reviewer on packages a project maintainer
accepted changes to the package anyway (with no chance for me to review,
a matter of hours).
I think we all appreciate that other people help out and update
packages. However, as a package maintainer, in the end, if I am the sole
maintainer, I expect to have final say about what gets accepted and what
not. We have plenty of packages that have no active maintainers and thus
having project maintainers that look after those and keep them up to
date is great. However, the whole thing backfires very quickly as the
practice of project maintainers overstepping their reach is very much
discouraging to those that actually do care about their packages.
But enough whining, I think there is at least a partial technical
solution that could be implemented, and I think I have proposed this
previously. Yes I know, if it is to change it is up to me, but there are
just not enough hours in a day. Anyway here it goes:
When a SR is submitted to a package the informational mail about the SR
only gets send to the package maintainer, reviewer, or bug owner if they
are set in OBS. If after a week the request has not seen any action, no
comments etc, then a mail is sent to the project maintainers and they
can then manage the request.
Having the SR not show up in the project maintainers Inbox right away
reduces the temptation to step in, reduces the flood of messages in
project maintainers Inboxes as there will be many requests they will
never see, and it gives the package maintainer the chance to act. From
my point of view this is a win win for everyone and could certainly help
smooth out some of the ripples.
Later,
Robert
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