Re: Replace the TC power to depose maintainers

2016-12-07 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Wednesday, December 07, 2016 11:21:23 AM Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 02:29:13PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Can we come up with some way whereby the maintainership authority is > > always shared, somehow ? > > The net result of this would be that anyone who maintains

Maintainerless Hive-Mind? (was Re: Replace the TC power to depose maintainers)

2016-12-07 Thread Guillem Jover
On Thu, 2016-12-01 at 19:20:36 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 03:46:05PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > 3. Abolish maintainership entirely. > > This is the obviously right solution. It is not only not obviously right to me, instead it seems obvious it carries a set of

Re: Replace the TC power to depose maintainers

2016-12-07 Thread Ian Jackson
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud writes ("Re: Replace the TC power to depose maintainers"): > If one feels the source package isn't kept up-to-date enough, she > can "just" file an ITP for a new source package name, pointing to > hir attempts at convincing the existing maintainers. As ITPs are > CC'ed to

Re: Replace the TC power to depose maintainers

2016-12-07 Thread Ian Jackson
Stefano Zacchiroli writes ("Re: Replace the TC power to depose maintainers"): > So my question here is: why would someone who has learned to work > amicably *within* the boundaries of several teams, will behave any > different *across* those boundaries, when contributing to packages that > belong

Re: Replace the TC power to depose maintainers

2016-12-07 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 02:29:13PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Can we come up with some way whereby the maintainership authority is > always shared, somehow ? The net result of this would be that anyone who maintains packages in Debian will do so as part of a team. Likely, people maintaining more

Re: Replace the TC power to depose maintainers

2016-12-07 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mercredi, 7 décembre 2016, 08.49:57 h CET Russell Stuart a écrit : > Why not have a formal rule that says if a package in Debian is out of > date for more than one release cycle any DD can package it under a > different name, after going through the usual ITP procedures coupled > with a bug