We've had the "strong package ownership" concept be a problem in various ways. Many years ago people were afraid of making NMUs to fix bugs, even RC bugs, and I started the https://wiki.debian.org/LowThresholdNmu page. It's got over 300 maintainers now, and NMUs are quite normal, though I suspect zack's NMU campaigning helped more. I suggest a lighter approach than a GR for eroding the strong package ownership further is to start another page, "LowThresholdHijack" or something, listing maintainers who are OK if someone hijacks their package if the maintainer isn't taking good care of it. Would anyone else than I put themselves on that new page? (If you would, start the page on the wiki and announce it on this thread, and I'll add myself.) -- I want to build worthwhile things that might last. --joeyh
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