Co-maintainers to assist upstreams with their packages in Extras

[Patrice Dumas]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 08:42:35AM -0500, Jima wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Gianluca Sforna wrote:
> >For the latter, we could maintain a list (along the lines of the
> >WishList page) where interested upstreams can add their project and
> >look for a maintainer.
> 
>  +1, I agree with this approach.  I strongly suspect Patrice was thinking 
> more of the latter and probably not at all about the former type (of which 
> there are clearly a few).

Indeed, it is the kind of examples I had in mind. However I still think
that anytime an upstream maintainer is also a fedora package maintainer,
there is a risk that he forget the differences between both. It won't
happen everytime, but we should be carefull. This danger certainly
disappears for maintainers with deep involvment in extras.

>  This doesn't seem like a bad idea, but I'm not totally convinced that 
> upstream needs CVS access in all cases.  That still requires them to not 

I agree. In my opinion what is interesting for upstream is to be in CC
for the bugs (including submission), and later to communicate, but I don't
think cvs access for them is needed.

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Pat