Future owners/ACL choices

[Chris Weyl]

On 2/24/07, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 24 February 2007 12:41, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> > After some thought I believe that people should be able to relinquish
> > ownership at will (since they can do that anyway just by not
> > maintaining their packages any longer) and that anyone should be able
> > to take ownership of orphaned packages at will. Maintainers should be
> > able to give ownership of their packages to others (either adding
> > other maintainers or completely transferring ownership to others).
> > But I see no problem with restricting the ability to arbitrarily take
> > ownership of another already owned package.
>
> I like this.  Orphaned packages could default back to open for any Extras
> contributor.  Then if it ever gets taken over, the maintainer taking it over
> can make a decision about the ACLs at that point.

+1.  This seems to enable the best of both worlds; if someone's
packages (say, AWOL) need to be forcibly orphaned it doesn't seem to
be a huge burden to have another set of eyes on the request.

                               -Chris

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Chris Weyl
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