Hi PLICEASE and JBERGER, I’m wearing my PAUSE admin hat, and emailing you about the first-come indexing permissions on packages in the Alien-Build distribution. I’m looking into distributions which have more than one person holding first-come[1]
Most of the packages have a single permission: first-come for PLICEASE. But there are two with first-come assigned to JBERGER, and co-maint to CHM, ETJ, PLICEASE, and ZMUGHAL: Alien::Base and Alien::Base::PkgConfig. Are we ok to transfer first-come to PLICEASE? He’d then have first-come on all packages, which means he’d be able to give co-maint to someone for the whole distribution, or transfer first-come. Normally this sort of rationalisation is straightforward, but my brain has Alien::* in the "can be weird shit going on" pigeon hole … But it could just be that Alien::Base used to be a separate distribution, but it got absorbed into Alien-Build. And if I do transfer the first-come, should I drop co-maint on those two packages for the other people? Cheers, Neil [1] https://neilb.org/2020/07/24/inconsistent-permissions.html
