On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 10:39:19 +0100 Michael Scherer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The problem is that if some people, ie Mandrake employees, have full control > > of main, this would means that we are not fully equal. Maybe it's time then that non-emplyees/contributors get write access to main. I believe Stefan has. If apache2 gets moved to main I could imagine to see Oden be (co-)maintainer of apache. Or Ben Reser to be maintainer of everybuddy. Or Danny/Mark to be comaintainers of wine. It could be set up then that you can send patches to the maintainer of a certain package. If he thinks it's good, he can decide with Warly, or with a team of senior people to give write access and (co-)maintainership of a package in main. I can imagine that Mandrakesoft doesn't want these changes to be too sudden, so maybe the upload script could do a check with rpmmon if the uploader is listed as (co-)maintainer, and if that's true, then upload it. That should make it that not every developer/volunteer can change every package. I also can imagine that employees/developers have global write access to main. So yes, the Great Divide is still there. I would agree with that, just let things evolve, there's no need for a revolution. (I hope) > IMHO, the problem of contrib support is the lack of people. > But, if the support team grow bigger, by including volunteers developpers, > if the bug are handled by the mainteners, and if each people have fewer > packages, this is solved, no ? You can ask contrib write access to Lenny, but this is not documented anywhere I believe, so the word only goes mouth to mouth. This should be documented. When you are a contributor, you have global write access to contrib. Is that seen as a problem? With the number of people who have write access now, I guess not. But if the number of people with write access grows, maybe the rules should get somewhat stricter. -- Marcel Pol
