[csw-maintainers] NMUs, non-maintainer uploads (was: reminder on contributing on recipes)

[Yann Rouillard]

Hi,

I think there are two topics here:
 1. how to handle NMU,
 2. how to handle orphaned packages.

If you have a lot of bugs assigned to you, it's probably because the
maintainers are not active anymore and didn't upload new packages. In fact,
the packages are rather orphaned.

For 2., I would propose to create a dedicated fake maintainer. The emails
address of this fake maintainer would be a mailing-list, all interested
maintainers in helping to keep orphaned package up to date would be
subscribed to this list.

For 1., it might be better to register the official maintainer somewhere
(the easiest is in the Makefile). If someone else uploads a package it
could just add an "UPLOADER" field in the pkginfo file but would not change
the official maintainer of the package.

Yann




2013/4/8 Peter Bonivart <bonivart at opencsw.org>

> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński
> <maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:
> > I'd like to bring this topic back to discussion. Is there something
> > easy we could do right away? For instance, setting the maintainer
> > field to a fake maintainer?
>
> Yes, some placeholder would work. But I think it should only be
> allowed to use either your own name or the placeholder, not any
> maintainers name.
>
> /peter
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