On 16.09.2011 19:48, Colin Guthrie wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and Michael Scherer at 16/09/11 14:39 did gyre and gimble: >> Le vendredi 16 septembre 2011 à 12:44 +0200, Guillaume Rousse a écrit : >>> Le 16/09/2011 11:47, Sander Lepik a écrit : >>>> 15.09.2011 21:43, Maarten Vanraes kirjutas: >>>>> I have a script ready to set the last comittor (that's a full >>>>> packager) as >>>>> maintainer. perhaps it can be activated before the GREAT PURGE. >>>> That's not so good idea. What we maybe can do is that we send out a >>>> warning that if you commit to a package after the warning and the >>>> package has no maintainer yet then you become one. So that people would >>>> first check what they get on their name. Many packages were imported by >>>> Anne, i'm not sure that she's going to maintain them all. :) >>>> >>>> I would do something like that: >>>> 2 months of warning period, if you touch package that has no maintainer >>>> you become its maintainer. After 2 months we start dropping those >>>> packages that have still no maintainer. >>> This whole idea of 'touch a package, become its maintainer' assumes than >>> anyone modifying a package has an obvious interest in it. >> >> Then we can increase the heuristic, like "upgrade to a new version", or >> "do several commit on it". Someone upgrading a package either : >> - is interested in it for the package ( and thus would be a maintainer ) >> - is interested into having it upgraded for using on another package >> ( and thus, as a user of the rpm for another rpm, has a interest to not >> make it disappear ). >> >> And i doubt that someone would do X commit on a rpm if not interested in >> it. > > > Are heuristics a good idea? How about just making mgarepo ask you if you > want to become the maintainer with a Y/n option (Y being default) when > you call submit on an unmaintained package. > > This should be simple enough that people genuinely maintaining it can > just hit return and also easy enough to opt out in the case of drive by > upgrades.
This seems like a nice idea :) -- Anssi Hannula
