<p dir="ltr">I like that approach. Anyone else?</p>
<p dir="ltr">Thanks<br>
-Ben</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 9, 2013 8:24 PM, "Dagobert Michelsen" <<a href="mailto:dam@opencsw.org">dam@opencsw.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi Ben,<br>
<br>
Am 09.01.2013 um 20:17 schrieb Ben Walton <<a href="mailto:bwalton@opencsw.org">bwalton@opencsw.org</a>>:<br>
> This would be fine with me for all of the reasons you've listed. It's not a trivial change though as maintainership info is derived from package metadata. A gar override its the answer...<br>
><br>
> In fact, simply making that info part of the recipe instead of storing it in .garrc would allow versioned take overs.<br>
><br>
> Am I missing a downside here?<br>
<br>
We could add something like<br>
MAINTAINER = dam<br>
in the Makefile with the person currently maintaining the package which then goes to<br>
SPKG_EMAIL = $(MAINTAINER)@$(PKGDOMAIN)<br>
if MAINTAINER is set and falls back to already defined SPKG_EMAIL<br>
where PKGDOMAIN is preset in the global /etc/opt/csw/garrc<br>
<br>
<br>
Best regards<br>
<br>
-- DAgo<br>
<br>
><br>
> On Jan 9, 2013 7:10 PM, "Peter FELECAN" <<a href="mailto:pfelecan@opencsw.org">pfelecan@opencsw.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> "Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński" <<a href="mailto:maciej@opencsw.org">maciej@opencsw.org</a>> writes:<br>
><br>
> > 2013/1/8 pfelecan <<a href="mailto:pfelecan@opencsw.org">pfelecan@opencsw.org</a>>:<br>
> >> On the maintainers mailing list, announce your intention to work on<br>
> >> the recipe and eventually take up the maintenance.<br>
> ><br>
> > What if I want to make a change and upload it, but not become a<br>
> > permanent maintainer of the package? I had loads of such cases,<br>
> > especially with packages depending on old libraries. I want to remove<br>
> > an old library, so I rebuild packages depending on it. Obviously, most<br>
> > of these packages are not maintained. But I only care about them not<br>
> > depending on a legacy dependency I want to kill, I don't want to spend<br>
> > weeks on all the bugs that such package might have filed in Mantis.<br>
> ><br>
> > Currently, the result is that I have a lot of bugs assigned to me,<br>
> > which are legitimate bugs, but I have no intention to fix them,<br>
> > because I didn't want to take over these packages. But the mechanics<br>
> > of our uploads work in such a way that it's impossible not to appear<br>
> > as the main maintainer after you've uploaded a package.<br>
><br>
> Indeed, this is bothering me also: a maintainer correcting a lot of<br>
> packages that are orphaned acquire, by default, the maintenance of the<br>
> those packages.<br>
><br>
> What if we change the uploader to have an option saying that the action<br>
> is on the behalf of the current maintainer --- even a retired one; we<br>
> can log that the upload was done by somebody else. Debian has a similar<br>
> feature...<br>
> --<br>
> Peter<br>
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