At Fri, 27 Mar 2015 02:50:08 -0400, Robert Schweikert wrote:
Hi,
I know we have had this discussion/appeal before but it appears it has not reached everyone yet.
To those that have the power to accept SRs on the behalf of others please be so kind and give package maintainers at least a few days before you accept submit request.
What is the point of having individual package maintainers when those at the project maintainer or higher level simply accept submit requests for package that they do not really maintain?
This is a discouraging practice and unless as a project maintainer you have the intention to maintain all those packages in the project yourself I suggest you exercise restraint for a few days before you run that accept command.
Well, I don't think waiting for a few days unconditionally is good, it'd just slow down the process without much gain. Majority of people assigned as package maintainer still ignore the requests unless they are project maintainers. What I'd love to see instead is to mark each package whether it's actively maintained by package maintainer, or it's in a loose maintenance mode. In the former case, approval from package maintainer is mandatory. Then the project manager's job is to ping package maintainer if they don't react quickly enough (this can be well automated). In the latter case, you don't need to wait so much. Rather quick review and acceptance by project manager is a preferred action. Just my $0.02. Takashi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org