On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 13:01:58 +0100, Andreas Enge wrote: > On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 09:02:36PM +0000, Brandon Invergo wrote: >> We have started to recognize people as having release-upload rights, even if >> they aren't formal maintainers (this is really fairly recent and so far has >> been >> handled on a case-by-case basis). > > Is there a need to distinguish "releasers" and "maintainers"? I would say > that once the glibc community trusts someone enough to make their releases, > this person should obtain upload rights on the GNU ftp server. And then > it would be logical to call this person a "maintainer", since uploading a new > release is formally the most powerful act in maintaining a package (while > practically, of course inspiring the development, organising the community > and so on are also very important).
The term "maintainer" has a particular meaning with the GNU Project, and maintainers have particular responsibilities, as outlined in the agreement that Brandon posted previously. -- Mike Gerwitz
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