Re: [gentoo-dev] Fixing elasticsearch maintainer

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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On pon, 2017-05-22 at 11:52 +1000, Sam Jorna wrote:
> On 18/05/17 02:38, Patrick Lauer wrote:
> > Since proxy-maint refuses to be removed from packages (especially since they
> > were unconditionally added to all packages with a non-gentoo-dev maintainer in
> > metadata) they are the de facto maintainers, and overrule everything else.
> 
> Just to clarify, the Proxy Maintainers project is not required to be 
> added to all packages maintained by non-Gentoo maintainers. If a Gentoo 
> developer is willing to work with and proxy commits for maintainer(s) 
> without commit access, Proxy Maintainers are happy to be removed. There 
> are several metadata.xml's in the tree with examples, including a few 
> for which you are one of the maintainers.
> 

Just to clarify, this works only if the developer and proxied maintainer
agree on the terms. It's not 'I remove proxy-maint, and now force you to
work on my terms that do not fit you because reasons'.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny

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