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Re: Ideas about allowing Co-maintainer



On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 09:17:05AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
> So your intention is to hijack the package.  Then cut the crap about
> being a "co-maintainer" if you have no intention of working together
> with the existing maintainer.  If the package needs to be hijacked due
> to maintainer inactivity, you should honestly present this as your
> reason for requesting sponsorship instead of trying to be named a
> co-maintainer of a package whose maintainer is MIA.

Perhaps the underlying motive is that the new 'co-maintainer' won't have
the finger pointed at him so often when stuff breaks :)

-- 
Joshua Kwan

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