]] Ian Jackson > Imagine the roles were replaced. Imagine the actual petitioners (P > and W, for the same of argument) were the current maintainers, and the > actual current maintainer (R) were a petitioner saying "please make me > the maintainer". Would the TC would spend months debating before > dismissing such a manifestly unfounded petition ?
That's a very hypothetical question which is hard to answer without more context of what P and W had done lately in terms of maintaining the package. > Can you explain why the TC is so reluctant to depose or overrule > maintainers ? Because I generally find it's generally the wrong tool for the job. If I can come up with a good explanation for why somebody should take a particular course of action (which I need before I'm willing to override anybody), and I take the time to explain it to them and discuss with them, I find we usually end up agreeing. The goal is not to end up with a new maintainer. Deposing a maintainer or overriding them is sometimes a necessary evil, but it's never my first option. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are
