Re: Barriers between packages and other people
On 2024-12-22 Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> wrote:
> On Sat 21 Dec 2024 at 10:23pm +01, Gioele Barabucci wrote:
>> We have a mechanism for when you feel responsible: "Maintainer: $me".
>> What is being discussed here is a mechanism for shared, collective,
>> diffused responsibility: "If this package is in bad shape, the whole
>> Debian project should be held responsible. Either it gets fixed by
>> someone or it gets RM'd by someone."
> Hmm, what you describe seems more like an orphaned package.
+1 on that. The proposed scheme is exactly how "Maintainer: Debian QA
Group" works.
cu Andreas
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