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Re: Group maintainership?



Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Has the group considered group maintainership of haskell related
> packages? This would mean that all packages maintained by the
> group would be maintained in a central repository (the Ocaml
> people are in the process of transitioning from svn to git) and
> if needed, allow anyone in the group to step in and fix a packaging
> problem.
> 
> Having been involved a little with the debian-ocaml-maintainers
> group I found that the group maintainership approach worked very
> will for them. IMO it also lowered the barrier of entry for newcomers
> to join in and contribute.
> 
> Opinions?

As a non-DD I especially like the last point :-)

Is the OCaml DDs pooling their resources on all OCaml-related packages,
or is there a defined subset that is maintained by the group?

/M

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