Future owners/ACL choices

[Josh Boyer]

On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 20:33 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 20:35 +0100, Till Maas wrote:
> > On Samstag 24 Februar 2007, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> > 
> > > Maintainer requesting ownership of an owned package => request is queued
> > 
> > When is there a need for a maintainer to get ownership of another package 
> > without wanting the original owner to transfer it? The only case I can think 
> > of is when the actual owner of a package is AWOL. But in this case it should 
> > be made sure that all of his packages are taken care of, so that the correct 
> > workflow should be a request to orphan all packages of a maintainer and then 
> > pick the package one wants to adopt.
> 
> There could be other instances as well.  If Dave Jones were to go AWOL,
> for instance, and he had no comaintainers, we'd certainly want to fast
> track someone onto the kernel package no matter what the state of his
> other packages.

Bad example.  Dave has a GPS unit embedded into him that the Fedora
Orbital Laser is constantly tracking.  He can't go AWOL, or he and
everyone within 5 km of him will be incinerated.

Oh wait... I wasn't supposed to say that.  MUAHAHAHAHHA

josh