Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > I don't think it's a good idea for devs to be putting stuff into the > tree without taking responsibility for it. sure I can put myself in there but it will help no one because I cannot test the thing. Furthermore I am actually part of maintainer-needed and commit fixes there. I am also on the maintainer-needed email alias.
Also maintainer-needed makes obvious to everyone that they do not have to ask me to fix sth. or take over the package -> less communication overhead. > I would expect that either > the herd is set appropriately (which means either the committer be a > member of the herd, or the herd explicitly agree to be proxy), which is the case here. > or the > committer be listed as a maintainer email address along with whoever is > being proxied. the committer in this case has no interest in maintaining the thing. And for proxying it does not matter who is proxying. > Further I believe bugs against such packages should be > assigned to the @gentoo.org address (proxy maintainer if there is one, > herd otherwise), and CC'ed to the proxied maintainer address. this does not allow the actual maintainer to close the bug and causes a lot of bugspam for a person who does not care about it and should be only contacted in the end to commit fixes/patches/bumps. Regards, Stefan -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
