On Saturday, 07.11.2015 at 10:42, Martin Lucina wrote:
> 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

Perhaps this is clearer:

# Maintainer

* Antti Kantee, [email protected]
* Github: @anttikantee
* #rumpkernel: pwwka

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