Re: Ideas about allowing Co-maintainer
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 12:10:01PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> * Petter Reinholdtsen (pere@hungry.com) [030814 11:50]:
> > Your idea could be considered if there are packages with lots of open
> > bugs were patches are included, and the maintainer are just ignoring
> > these. Then the package should probably be hijacked or just NMUed.
> > As far as I know, there are not many packages like that.
>
> There are even important packages that didn't release for some time
> and have bugs with patches for some time. These packages are also the
> most difficult ones for handling. Hijacking an unimportant package
> (with the appropriate procedure of course) is not difficult; hijacking
> an important package where the maintainer is also a important person
> is something I personally certainly can't do.
Frankly I think it's just as well that it takes somebody with
determination and confidence to hijack an important package. Because,
after all, they're important, usually to all of us, and I'd like there
to be *some* resistance to just anyone taking them over.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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