this is a suggestion i already made with mandriva but it landed nowhere, let's try again.
At the moment we have 1to1 relationship in all tools between maintainer and package. But for some packages we have more than one people willing to work on that package. Besides, for some critical package it may be useful having more than one person responsible for it. Also someone might be interested in helping on package foo, but feels too much inexperienced to take full reponsability for it. Peer review is important. The idea is not associating a package with a single maintainer, but associate each package to a maintainer-group, say [email protected], and let maintainers subscribe to package maintenance. this would result that in case a ticket is opened in bugzilla vs package, all interested parties would be notified, and start working on a solution. (this might require a bit of coordination, but maybe just assigning the bug to a real person is enough to note someone is taking care of the problem) In this case a package will become unmaintained if no-one is subscribed to the group. we could even use refint_nothing in ldap to redirect [email protected] to [email protected] when noone is subscribed to a package. Regards, L. -- Luca Berra -- [email protected]
