On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> How about we try to discuss some reasonable rules for minimal team
> maintainance? I understand that you don't want to hand over coreutils to
> co-maintainers without any assurance that it will work. Something like:
>
> 1. You are the main maintainer. You do all the uploads. Nobody else does
> uploads, except following the normal NMU procedures of course.
> 2. A {svn,git} repository is setup, and write access is given to
> interested people. You use this repository when doing uploads. You
> commit your changes to it.
> 3. You are free to revert changes made in the repository, provided that
> you provide enough information to the one who made the change, so that
> he can understand why you did it. If he disagrees, you try to be a
> least a bit open to discussion.
> 4. Later, we try to have a discussion about the management of the
> Maintainer: and Uploaders: fields. But this isn't important for now.
>
> That's all. If you agree with the above, I'll consider the issue
> resolved, and I think others will, as well. You just have to tell me
> which kind of repository you want (svn or git, or even something else,
> I don't care).
Your proposal seems reasonable. I hope Michael will accept it.
Cheers,
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Raphaël Hertzog
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