* Robert Schweikert <rjschwei@suse.com> [2012-10-26 10:16]:
- We will collect information about all packages in all devel projects that feed factory. We will generate a list of packages that have no maintainer, and a list of packages that need help, i.e. a package that has fewer than 5 maintainers. In addition we will list
Not sure if I understand that right, a package that has fewer than 5 maintainers "needs help"? If so, that seems completely arbitrary and even absurd, as this totally depends on the complexity of the package and existing maintainer and probably reinforces the very problem you're trying to solve (nobody having a sense of ownership and feeling responsible) in a lot of cases. Apart from that I'm missing some kind of more formal orphaning process from your proposal, I think that's part of the issue when maintainers go missing and a package becomes unmaintained without anyone noticing (at least until it fails to build on Factory). We should encourage people to announce it when they are no longer able to maintain a package (which rarely happens) and have some process for orphaning by non-maintainers when a maintainer becomes unresponsive. -- Guido Berhoerster -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org