Dear all El 05/12/16 a las 19:13, Lars Wirzenius escribió: > 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.
I like this idea, although I felt confused about the term. I asked Lars about it in IRC, posting the conversation with his permission: <larjona> Hi! I'm not sure about what do you mean about hijack, isn't the same as "adoption"? I mean, a maintainer sends a RFA or Orphans a package when she cannot care about it, this is the same, but the initial movement made by a different DD. Isn't it? <liw> pretty much. hijack has a stronger connotation where it's done against the current maintainer's wishes, but my proposed list would remove that connotation <liw> possibly hijack is the wrong word <larjona> I don't know if there is a word in English for when the state decides to take apart children from bad (no caring) parents, in Spanish it's "quitar la custodia". That would be the word I would use. If there is not, "adoption", simply, to encourage people to sign in the list. <liw> agreed <larjona> Or maybr just a list of "cat model package maintainers" http://www.trueelena.org/computers/articles/the_cat_model_of_package_ownership.html <liw> LowThresholdAdoption maybe? <larjona> Yes <liw> feel free to copy this discussion to the email thread :) <larjona> Thanks. Will do. 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 have just created the page: https://wiki.debian.org/LowThresholdAdoption and added myself to the list. I've copied some parts from the LowThresholdNmu wiki page but deleted others (mainly about procedure, because if more people likes this idea, I guess some "procedure" like a NM-RFA should be created? I leave this for the "packaging"(uploading) DDs. I've added myself to the list for one of the tasks I have committed to care in Debian, the coordination of the Spanish translation of www.debian.org. Best regards -- Laura Arjona Reina https://wiki.debian.org/LauraArjona
