[csw-maintainers] reminder on contributing on recipes

[Peter FELECAN]

"Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński" <maciej at opencsw.org> writes:

> 2013/1/8 pfelecan <pfelecan at opencsw.org>:
>>   On the maintainers mailing list, announce your intention to work on
>>   the recipe and eventually take up the maintenance.
>
> What if I want to make a change and upload it, but not become a
> permanent maintainer of the package? I had loads of such cases,
> especially with packages depending on old libraries. I want to remove
> an old library, so I rebuild packages depending on it. Obviously, most
> of these packages are not maintained. But I only care about them not
> depending on a legacy dependency I want to kill, I don't want to spend
> weeks on all the bugs that such package might have filed in Mantis.
>
> Currently, the result is that I have a lot of bugs assigned to me,
> which are legitimate bugs, but I have no intention to fix them,
> because I didn't want to take over these packages. But the mechanics
> of our uploads work in such a way that it's impossible not to appear
> as the main maintainer after you've uploaded a package.

Indeed, this is bothering me also: a maintainer correcting a lot of
packages that are orphaned acquire, by default, the maintenance of the
those packages.

What if we change the uploader to have an option saying that the action
is on the behalf of the current maintainer --- even a retired one; we
can log that the upload was done by somebody else. Debian has a similar
feature...
-- 
Peter