Co-maintainersip policy for Fedora Packages

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

BTW, FESCo discussed the whole co-maintainership proposal a little bit
in yesterdays meeting. I'll revisit the proposal and hope to come up
with something that will get into the same direction, but a bit
differently, in the hope to make more people glad. But that might take
some time.

Greg Dekoenigsberg schrieb:
> On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 20:21 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>> I think we've already reached the point where we need to get new people
>>> into the game via co-maintainership.
>> Exactly.
> I'm not sure this follows.
> 
> Is the true statement, "we need to get new people into the game via 
> co-maintainership"?  Or is it, "we need to get new people into the game"?
> 
> These are two different statements.

I'd say both are important.

[...]
> What about an IRC teach-in?  What if we had a couple of packagers who, 
> once a month or so, took a couple of hours to run a packaging tutorial in 
> real time?

"Learning by doing" and especially the part "*making errors* and learn
from them" (¹) is IMHO important, especially for packaging.

In other words: I don't think a IRC packaging tutorial will be a big
help as those that will give that tutorial will probably be experts
already and experts often forgot all those small errors they did in the
beginning.

CU
thl


(¹) -- read: making errors in this case means: make errors while being
co-maintainer, get told by the primary maintainer before the package
gets build or hits the repo. And *no*, I don't want to force that on
anybody. It's something that primary maintainer *can* do if they want.