Re: Ideas about allowing Co-maintainer
* Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org) [030814 12:50]:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 12:10:01PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> > 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.
I didn't say that that is bad. Just that most of the people discussing
here can't hijack e.g. ifupdown, but can quite easily hijack an
optional unmaintained package, e.g. as libapache-mod-dav was in April
(when I hijacked it).
Cheers,
Andi
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