And I agree about the other perms as well On Sun, Jul 26, 2020, 12:40 PM Joel Berger <joel.a.ber...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, please assign them to Graham. If you'd rather I do it I can but I'll > need a poke in a day or so. > > Cheers, > Joel > > On Sun, Jul 26, 2020, 11:29 AM Graham Ollis <plice...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Neil, >> >> Thanks for reaching out on this. >> >> Indeed, today's Alien-Build is a combination of Alien::Build* which I >> originated, and some Alien::Base* modules which originated from Joel as >> Alien-Base. (There are also Alien::Base* modules in >> Alien-Base-ModuleBuild, which was spun off of Alien-Base when the other >> Alien::Base modules were merged into Alien-Build). >> >> My opinion, and if Joel agrees, is it would be best to make me first-come >> on all the modules in Alien-Build, keep JBERGER, ETJ and ZMUGHAL as >> co-maint (adding new modules that they do not already have co-main to). >> Although only Joel and myself have made releases, at different points all >> of these people were actively working on Alien-Build related stuff, and I >> prefer for them to decide whom should take over if for some reason I cannot >> work on it, without the intervention of the PAUSE admins. I think CHM >> should be removed as co-maint as he hasn't in practice contributed as much >> to the project. If Joel feels strongly about keeping CHM I am fine with >> that too, though this is not my preference. >> >> Graham >> >> On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 10:12 AM Neil Bowers <neil.bow...@cogendo.com> >> wrote: >> >>> 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 >>> >> >> >> -- >> after now, >> graham >> >
