On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Stephan Kulow
Currently as far as I am aware you are either a maintainer or you have to go through a maintainer, which leaves people who want to help a lot but not enough to really be maintainers either improperly as maintainers or swamping the maintainers with tons of requests. Perhaps a solution might be for there to be a second class of users for packages and projects, maybe "Contributors", who have access rights to improve the package or project because they make substantial contribution but are not considered dedicated enough to be "maintainers". This would help clarify the role of users in the package and project. Actually this is already the split between bugowner and maintainer, the
On 14.06.2012 14:44, todd rme wrote: project maintainers are normally only added as fallback maintainer to the package "bugowner". But what happens in many projects (not in all, some work great still) is that the project maintainers see so many requests they are not interested in *right now*, that they tend to ignore just about everything IMO.
I am not sure I was clear with what I meant. What I am saying is that for both projects and packages, there should be a type of user who is below a maintainer/bugowner but still has access rights to the project/package, that is someone who does enough good work to deserve that sort of access, but not enough to really be considered "in charge" of the project/package like the maintainer/bugowner is. -Todd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org