On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 01:43:16PM +0100, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: > Some of these packages are very well maintained and others.. well, > bug numbers sometimes speak for themselves. For these packages we have > that cool text on the PTS pages: "The package is of priority standard > or higher, you should really find some co-maintainers." which brought > me on this at all. What I thought about when I read that is: "HaHaHa, > we are kidding on us own, because we recommend something to us, what > should actually be the default (for this type of packages). > Thats why I thought it would eventually be a good idea to form a core > team, meaning a team of a bunch of people (10-20?), with wide-spread > knowledge and known to have enough free time (e.g. people who have > 50 > packages and aren't able to keep up with the bug reports in their own > packages wouldn't qualify) that gets the job to (co-)maintain all these > packages that are very important to us. It doesn't mean that the > existing maintainers are taken away the packages, because they could > still stay the maintainers, but obviously some of these packages are not > easily maintainable by one person.
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