On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 05:44:01PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> 
> The mitigation/successor strategy is to have comaintainers for every
> package.
> 
> Unfortunately our tools enforce the notion of a "main admin" and
> if that person leaves that role has to be given to another
> comaintainer explicitly.

Thats due to bugzilla really. bugzilla only supports assigning a bug to
1 account. ;( 

> IMHO we would be better off eliminating the notion of 'main admin'
> entirely and have all co-maintainers be at the equal level, so there
> is no need for a dance to give packages to comaintainers. There
> should only be manual action needed if the last comaintainer quits.

+100

> A workaround for the 'main admin' problem is to have a robot account
> as the 'main admin' and all the real people as merely 'admin', so
> the main admin never leaves, but that's a bit tedious to setup.

I agree, but it would be a good deal of work to switch to.

I'd definitely like to do this when/if we move away from bugzilla.

kevin

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