> On 28. Aug 2018, at 11:00, Robert Sandell <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> And from what I've seen so far usernames seems to only be appended to the 
> permissions, so it's not a good source of finding the actual current 
> maintainer in there.

Perhaps this is something that needs to be clarified -- removing previous 
maintainers is indeed rare. As far as I'm concerned, this just means there are 
multiple maintainers.

I have plenty of experience doing this, to be able to assign security issues to 
maintainers, and consider the upload permissions the most reliable indicator of 
maintainership. If there are multiple users in there, I need to check further 
sources (For example Git repo activity, or who created most recent releases, 
etc.) to find the most likely one candidate. Ironically this process really 
only seems to fail when people adopt a plugin, are being told "congratulations, 
you're the maintainer now", but never bother to file a permissions PR (i.e. 
cannot actually release it).

There's probably potential here to enrich the metadata (for example security 
contact, primary maintainer), but that's well beyond the scope of this issue.

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