Packager Sponsors Responsibility Policy

[Toshio Kuratomi]

Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Fri, 23 May 2008 15:28:21 +0200
> pertusus at free.fr (Patrice Dumas) wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 08:26:38PM -0400, Brian Pepple wrote:
>>> == Fix issues caused by sponsored maintainers ==
>>> If one of your sponsored maintainers is unable to fix an issue in
>>> their package(s), it's up to the sponsor to step in and make the
>>> needed fixes. This might include pushing a security update when the
>>> maintainer is unavailable, applying a patch, removing a improperly
>>> build package, or other time or security sensitive issue. Note that
>>> the maintainer should be shown the fix and how to manage the issue
>>> moving forward.
>> There are many technical issues here. It would be nice if a sponsor
>> could be in initialCC/Watchcommit/commit for all the packages of a 
>> sponsored person (and not by package), without needing a manual
>> intervention from the sponsored person, and such that the sponsored
>> person cannot revoke it. Also it should be easy to give up with those
>> acls when the sponsor thinks that the sponsored person is competent
>> enough.
> 
> Yeah, that would be nice. Pkgdb enhancement it sounds like... 
> could you file it? 
> 
Just a note: This would be a large change to the packagedb.  If someone 
wants to spearhead implementation of it, let me know and I'll outline 
some of the changes that will need to be made.

-Toshio