On Friday, 06.11.2015 at 18:10, Antti Kantee wrote: > Hi, > > So with mato's package autobuilds churning and flagging problems that > someone needs to fix, I've been thinking it would be nice if every package > had a maintainer (or maintainers), who at least pretended to be interested > in keeping the package working. That maintainer would have push access to > repo.rumpkernel.org/rumprun-packages so that 1) issues can be assigned to > them 2) they can fix the problems quickly. Submitting a package would > require becoming a maintainer or finding one. Of course, open source being > open source, some maintainers would fade away over time, but at least we'd > know who to turn for ones which are active maintained. > > There's both good and bad in a maintainer model, but at least I wouldn't > have to remember who's capable of fixing problems in package X, or > designating the last person who touched the package as maintainer du jour. > > I sort of attempted a "maintainer" template in the mpg123 package, but I'm > not quite happy with how it looks. What would be the sensible content?
I think it looks fine for now, would just make it more prominent in the README, e.g.: # Maintainer Antti Kantee, [email protected], @anttikantee on Github, pwwka on #rumpkernel
