On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 10:17 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: > On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 4:59 AM, Olav Vitters <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:21:17PM -0500, Ray Strode wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Olav Vitters <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > 3. Access is determined using "doap" files > >> > 4. If you're not in the doap file of that module, you cannot upload > >> It's pretty common for people not listed as maintainers in the doap > >> files to do releases, especially for the lesser maintained modules. I > >> don't think that's a bad thing, either. > > > > Whom? Developers of the module who aren't listed as maintainer, or just > > a random person wanting to release a new tarball of e.g. bonobo or > > libgnome? > > > > Note that ftp-release-list does say when it is a non-maintainer upload. > > It adds the header X-Maintainer-Upload: True if it was uploaded by a > > maintainer, False if not. > > I have done plenty of uploads of not-my-own modules over the years, eg > polkit-gnome releases for David, releases for less-actively-maintained > modules like libnotify or gnome-screensaver, etc. But then, I'm in the > release team, so I would be able to continue doing that.
I semi-randomly do those sorts of releases as well, usually when a less-oft used GNOME library needs a release to go along with one of my modules. It's useful. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
