Dne 9.1.2014 13:16, Josef Reidinger napsal(a):
On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 11:48:06 +0100 Arvin Schnell
wrote: Hi,
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.
Often even AUTHORS file may not be helpful as authors of the code are not reachable or interested in it anymore. This fact is not noticeable from reading the AUTHORS file. Which might be really frustrating for someone not familiar with the names/persons. In such case it's always better to have an anonymous 'yast-maintainer' than a list of person names to be chased via email (in case the file contains any). If we don't have any maintainer for a package, then it would be more helpful to put there some notice about this mailing list and let people ask questions here. vlado
Regards, Arvin
I agree. AUTHORS can be also useful to get list of people that can potentionally have some knowledge when maintainer is not available.
Josef