Am Freitag 25 September 2009 schrieb Johannes Meixner:
Hello,
On Sep 24 17:31 Stephan Kulow wrote (shortened):
* We create openSUSE:Factory:Devel as a pool of packages with single maintainers, maintainers can move their packages their if they do not feel they belong in any specific group. In there you only maintain your package, not the rest.
What exactly is meant with "you only maintain"?
Is it meant as a kind of habit, i.e. "in openSUSE:Factory:Devel you are obliged to maintain only your package, not any other packages in openSUSE:Factory:Devel" or is it meant as something which is enforced by the Build Service, i.e. "only you can maintain your package(s) (i.e. accept submit requests and so on) not other people in openSUSE:Factory:Devel can do this" ?
If you mean the latter, what happens when there is a severe issue with a package but its "single maintainer" is not available for some time (e.g. is on vacation or whatever)?
Right now devel projects are setup all or nothing. If you have a package in it, you became maintainer for all other packages. For many projects this works very fine (Publishing, Base:System, GNOME, KDE, perl - just to name a few). For others it doesn't (devel:libraries:c_c++ is my favorite "no group feeling" project). So what I'm proposing is to create a place where you can put your package if you don't feel connected to any group - technically for that package. And this group I would setup so that everyone decides for his package, who maintains it (this doesn't mean it's a single person). And the project will be maintained by me, hopefully with the help of others. Meaning if someone submits a patch and it's not reacted upon for some time, I will step up and if someone wants to become maintainer of a homeless package (or the maintainer does not react), I'll be the one to contact to. It's not that I want more stuff to do, but I think there are enough projects that do not have that kind of overall maintainer, that I rather do it for 1 project than doing it for 20 ;( And I hope we can make that "me" a little group of people. Greetings, Stephan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org