Re: Ideas about allowing Co-maintainer
Le jeudi 14 août 2003, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt écrit :
> Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> writes:
> > [Goswin von Brederlow]
> >> I propose that when a package has <X> open bug (or RC bugs) for a
> >> reasonable long time without activity anyone can just declare themself
> >> co-maintainer and do the work.
> > An accepted way to help maintainers is to send patches into BTS that
> > fixes the reported problem, and tag the bug 'patch'. This way one can
> > provide solutions for the maintainer to consider, and save them lots
> > of time.
>
> In most cases, this "accepted way" leads to no change in the package and
> is only frustrating for the submitter of the patch and Goswin's proposal
> addresses such cases. I like the idea a lot [1] and am sure that this
> will improve the overall quality of Debian.
An NMU can then be done if the package maintainer does not answer to
this patch. So you don't need to have a co-maintainer, you just have to
make a NMU, which is just what the new co-maintainer would do.
Nicolas Bertolissio
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