On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 06:51:52AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 10:13:47AM +0000, paddy@panici.net wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 05:09:12AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > > >Russ Allbery wrote: > > > >So, here's a possibly weird proposal. > > > > > > > >What if we had some mechanism whereby people could indicate interest in > > > >maintaining a package should anything happen to the current maintainer? > > > >Have it be as non-confrontational as possible by having it not indicate > > > >any feeling about whether the package is currently maintained well, > > > >just a willingness to help should the current maintainer be unable to > > > >continue for some reason. > > > > an "understudy" or "standby" ? > > > Could we call it "co-maintainer" or something like that? what about having the list include different options for folks who may want to: work on a specific feature work on a specific bug want to co-maintaint want to help with triage etc. -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | |join the new debian-community.org to help Debian! |
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