Didier Raboud wrote: > The last aspect would also be to completely remove the source-package-level realms; within a subset, there would be no package-specific maintainers or vetoes; disputes would move "out" from source-package-level to subset-level.
Uhm. This makes me wonder what the real goal of this proposal is. Is it about restricting the ability of DDs to upload any package (something that has never really caused any real issues so far as I'm aware)? Or is it really about having a way to work around uncollaborative maintainers of specific packages? If it's the latter, I'm afraid it could have more negative effects than positive. While "package-specific maintainership" does have its problems, it is essentially what has been keeping Debian working until now. People take care of their packages because, well, they're their packages. If packages aren't assigned to maintainers anymore, I fear a situation of "it's everybody's responsibility, therefore it's nobody's responsibility". There are in fact many team-maintained packages, and that's working well, but it works because people *voluntarily* agreed to collective maintainership, and those teams are usually rather small anyway, with an even smaller number of people taking the lead. Those will still have veto power. Gerardo
