slave maintainer for day to day work
Hello,
when Dwarf maintained glibc, it was soon clear that it was too much work for
one maintainer to maintain glibc and care about the bug reports etc.
I was helping Dwarf, and digged through all bug reports, classifying them
and closing fixed ones in his name. It was a big success. I was able to
close several dozens in a few days, and merge a couple.
I would offer the same for dpkg, but extend this offer to make small point
releases for very trivial fixes, like one or two character fixes or other
obvious things.
The idea is that dpkg needs capable maintainers for development and design
issues, but capable people are often very very busy. So a maintainer with
more time to answer easy bug reports and do simple things could ease the
workload on the real maintainers. I am not ignorant of dpkg, I ported it to
Hurd and spent quite some hours inside the source tree, and I have "lots of
time" (an exaggeration).
You may or may not like the idea. If you feel you will have more time in the
future to maintain dpkg, that's just fine. If you think my help could be
needed, you can approve me.
Thanks,
Marcus
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