On Mon, 23 Mar 2015 22:53:45 +0300 Andrew Savchenko <birc...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Mar 2015 14:49:44 -0400 Tim Harder wrote: > > On 2015-03-23 13:48, Panagiotis Christopoulos wrote: > > > You want to have a herd for that or something in metadata.xml > > > that would raise a flag that the package can be freely > > > touched/maintained by anyone? > > > > I'd rather have a herd so people can easily scan via euscan or > > similar to see the entire array of pkgs falling into the space. > > Abusing another metadata field doesn't give the same visibility or > > would require changes from tools. > > > > For example, bugs assigned to the herd or with it in CC could be > > fixed by anyone without having to ask for permission. How would > > that be handled easily when using an extra metadata field? I agree that something along these lines would be really useful. Possibly it might be a good idea to have some sort of extra information in the metadata if you want to specify some restrictions on this. Something like "feel free to bump/fix bugs etc but please don't bump to prerelease versions".
