Re: maintainer field
"Ondrej Certik" <ondrej@certik.cz> writes:
> At the moment, it's set to me, but it seems to me it's better for
> everybody, if it is rather set to DPMT, since that way everyone
> should feel encouraged to fix things in all DPMT packages.
The bug reports are available, for those looking for things to fix.
> On the other hand, if the maintainer is set to me directly, then
> it's more clear, who is responsible for the package.
This is certainly my preference. It's much clearer if there is *one*
person named as the responsible party for the packages.
It's a fact of human psychology that if a collective group is named as
the responsible party, then nobody in that group feels particularly
responsible. This is one reason why groups nominate a leader: it gives
that person a stake in seeing the group's efforts succeed.
None of this means that the responsible person is the *only* one
responsible, of course.
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Ben Finney
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