On Wed, 29 Jun 2022 at 14:52, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel <
devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> On 29/06/2022 20:32, Stephen Smoogen wrote:
> > Yes, they can. So can a lot of other people and things in Fedora.
>
> Only proven-packagers in limited situations or people who have been
> granted access by the package owner.
>
> > This isn't other distros where a package maintainer is a defacto
> dictator of the package they put into the OS. There is a give and take in
> what can happen with a package.
>
> But it is. The package owner has full control over the package and can
> add or remove co-maintainers as they see fit.
>
>
I believe the term 'package owner' was killed several years ago in Fedora.
Maintainers are custodians and do not own the package.


> But now we see that someone can add other people to co-maintainers. This
> is terrible.
>
>



-- 
Stephen Smoogen, Red Hat Automotive
Let us be kind to one another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle.
-- Ian MacClaren
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