2013/1/9 Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński <[email protected]>: > 2013/1/8 pfelecan <[email protected]>: >> On the maintainers mailing list, announce your intention to work on >> the recipe and eventually take up the maintenance. > > What if I want to make a change and upload it, but not become a > permanent maintainer of the package? I had loads of such cases, > especially with packages depending on old libraries. I want to remove > an old library, so I rebuild packages depending on it. Obviously, most > of these packages are not maintained. But I only care about them not > depending on a legacy dependency I want to kill, I don't want to spend > weeks on all the bugs that such package might have filed in Mantis. > > Currently, the result is that I have a lot of bugs assigned to me, > which are legitimate bugs, but I have no intention to fix them, > because I didn't want to take over these packages. But the mechanics > of our uploads work in such a way that it's impossible not to appear > as the main maintainer after you've uploaded a package.
I'd like to bring this topic back to discussion. Is there something easy we could do right away? For instance, setting the maintainer field to a fake maintainer? Maciej _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
