Re: About MIA maintainers
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- Subject: Re: About MIA maintainers
- From: "Kevin B. McCarty" <kmccarty@Princeton.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 15:48:01 -0400
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Tapio Lehtonen wrote:
> What about encouraging maintainers to appoint a substitute maintainer?
> This does not apply to group maintained packages and I am open to
> suggestions what to call the second in charge, not necessarily
> substitute maintainer.
>
> Appointing a substitute would not take lots of effort in
> infrastucture, just a way to find who the substitute is when the
> primary maintainer is temporarily unable to maintain.
Easy enough, just put the substitute in the Uploaders field. I suppose
someone who didn't want to go to the effort of finding a good substitute
might list a random developer there without informing the other
developer. But I imagine this behavior would be frowned upon :-)
> The responsibilities of primary and substitute are to keep the
> substitute informed of the state of the package so he/she can do the
> substitute work when needed.
This seems like a good compromise to me that wouldn't be overkill in the
case of small packages. One can even imagine having the "substitute" be
a list like debian-desktop@lists.d.o for random little applets, etc.
> Nothing private in this e-mail.
Nor (obviously) mine.
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