Co-maintainersip policy for Fedora Packages

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Linus Walleij schrieb:
> On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> E.g. a team of "packaging specialists" being granted "card blanche
>> privileges" on "packaging issues" (...)
>> At least to me, e.g. wrt. packaging, in obvious cases, this would spare
>> me a lot of time, because bugzilla'ing takes much more time than
>> directly fixing something.
> You're right. And I notice that I also stated before that most of the 
> Fedora core people (loosely defined term but definately including Ralf) 
> are welcome to change and rebuild any of my packages at will.
> 
> Actually the idea of strict ownership evades me, I would rather prefer a 
> more Wiki-like attitude (once you have a Fedora ID account and PGP key) - 
> "BE BOLD", "If in doubt, fix it".
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Be_bold_in_updating_pages

+1 -- I'm all for that, too, but every time I proposed something like
the above somewhere I got quickly shot down by other people.

But the proper place for that IMHO is not the co-maintainers policy.
It's IMHO the "when to touch other peoples packages" policy. When I
wrote that I even tried to grant some "packaging specialists" access
everywhere, but as I said: People did not like it and preferred the
bugzilla way even for obvious fixes.

Cu
thl