On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 04:08:04PM +0100, Stephan Kulow wrote:
Hi,
As I heard more and more conflicting complaints about Base:System I decided to go and do something about it.
The complaints were either "I get too many mails about it, so I stopped caring" or "I can't care right now, but I don't want other people to work on my requests".
As Base:System is just too large to follow one policy, but it's still about the most important devel project we have for the distribution, I think extra care is to be taken.
So I did two things (in the light, but not following Robert's words 100%):
- Reduced the list of project maintainers of Base:System *dramatically*, leaving still enough of people to be sure there are maintainers around to review things like adding new packages.
- Added package bugowners also as maintainers to their packages.
- Added the top 3 contributors to a package also as maintainer - unless the contribution is a single commit to the package.
So if you find yourself now in or out a package you care or not care, please either just email me or file an add_role request.
Great job! What about cleaning it up? I see it have 344 packages, but most of the things are not related to anything like system base - bootchart, brlemu, d-feet and others and can be freely moved out I already have some list, so maybe we can create a wiki with a proposal(s). Regards Michal Vyskocil