On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 11:48:06AM +0100, Arvin Schnell wrote:
while reassigning yast-maintainers bugs I noticed that once again the maintainer/bugowner information is inconsistent: The content of the MAINTAINER file in git differs from the output of 'osc maintainer' or 'osc bugowner'. This leads to confusion.
We had this problem before and apparently fail to solve the inconsistency long term. So I propose to drop the MAINTAINER file in git and rely on osc.
Instead we can have a AUTHORS files so that people not knowing about osc can still reach the authors.
During a telco we reached following conclusion: - The buildservice is the offical source for maintainer information. - The MAINTAINER files will be changed to include a note: "use 'osc maintainer / bugowner <package-name>' to query the maintainer and bugowner" - Martin will commit a README that will also include notes how to reach developers. Martin, it would be cool if you could also update the MAINTAINER files during the README mass-commit. - The MAINTAINER files could be removed in the future when everybody has learn to use osc. ciao Arvin -- Arvin Schnell, <aschnell@suse.de> Senior Software Engineer, Research & Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstraße 5 90409 Nürnberg Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: yast-devel+owner@opensuse.org