Quoting Guido Berhoerster
* Stephan Kulow
[2013-07-04 10:04]: On 03.07.2013 16:45, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
Hi,
Looks like we went from one extreme (submit requests hanging around for months) to the other. It happened now for the second time in two days that I see a submit request accepted within a few hours that was a) not submitted by the actual package maintainer and b) not accepted nor acknowledged by the actual package maintainer and c) not urgent in any way. Both cases were core distro packages. Please, if you are project maintainer but not package maintainer give the actual maintainer a chance to review what arbitrary people do to their package. By giving a chance I'm talking about weeks rather than hours. It's very unfair and annoying to
Weeks is very frustrating for the submitter actually as it's currently not possible to give useful feedback - I hope that Shayon succeeds in having comments implemented in the build service, so that project maintainers can do reviews and add their liking/disliking to the request and then wait for the actual maintainer to step up.
In the meantime, how about introducing a maintainer "grace time" policy, that is a certain time period (say 1-2 weeks) in which project maintainers should usually not intervene combined with a "vacation list" (like e.g. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Vacation) to let others know if a maintainer will be unresponsive for a longer time period?
Why not do as I did on the vlc package in multimedia:libs (which seems to work out just fine): - If you care THAT much about a package, add yourself as REVIEWER to it. The prj maintainer can still overrule this, but has to do so 'actively' by acknowledging a popup that a review is pending. For other packages, the idea of 'project maintainers' is really to take care of the whole project... which means 'of all packages inside the project'. Dominique -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org