Maintainer Responsibility Policy

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Thu May 8 14:55:04 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 09:10 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 2:07 AM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:
> >  I'm not sure that's strong enough. It should clearly state that the
> >  package maintainer is responsible for getting bugs fixed -- if the
> >  package maintainer isn't a coder, then they need to take a more
> >  managerial röle; working with upstream or with code-monkeys within
> >  Fedora to get things fixed. How about this:
> 
> Do we need to make an effort to catalog skillsets in the contributor
> base? to make it easier to help maintainers find a particular sort of
> code-monkey?  

Yes, perhaps. Or maybe it would be better to have a code-monkey sign up
as co-maintainer for the package, where the primary maintainer isn't
capable of actually..., well, maintaining the package.

-- 
dwmw2




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