On 10 August 2010 14:05, Joseph L. Casale <[email protected]> wrote:
>>(5) Do we have a maintainer for that package, as distinct from the >>builder of the package? The maintainer will have to be a person who >>uses it daily / regularly and understands it. (That rules *me* out.) > What are the responsibilities of the maintainer, maybe net those out > so those whom are capable can gauge whether they want to step up. Broadly speaking, the maintainer of a package should be a person who regularly uses the product, is (preferably) familiar with its innermost workings and monitors the developments made at its source level. This may be routine bug fixes or a new release. The maintainer should consider the upstream developments in the light the fact that ELRepo provided packages are for users of Enterprise Linux systems and thus are not updated just to remain at the leading edge. Having made the decision that the package should be updated, the maintainer would locally build and test the updated package. Once satisfied, the updated source package would then be passed to a member of the ELRepo Administration Team for building, signing and pushing to the repository. In the case of this drbd83 package, it would be logical for the maintainer to make that contact with ELRepo administration via Dag, the initial package builder. Dag, Akemi, Phil & Steve -- Please feel free to expand on the above and fill in anything that I have missed. ;-) Alan / burakkucat. _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rpmforge.net/mailman/listinfo/users
