[gentoo-dev] Please do not add maintainers without their consent

[gentoo-dev] Please do not add maintainers without their consent

[Michał Górny]

Hi,

TL;DR: please do not add others as maintainers of your packages without
asking them first.  For example, please stop adding python@ to anything
that remotely looks like Python without consent of Python project.

The Python team is currently maintaining over 1200 packages.  Many of
those packages were never touched, reviewed or even ever seen by members
of the Python project.  For some of them, we ended up as (factual or
effective) primary (or only) maintainers even though none of us ever had
any clue about the package in question.  We maintain packages that have
barely any relevance to Python, or fit our 'modus operandi'.

This problem is not limited to the Python team.  What was my surprise
when bugs against outdated libFuzzer package started coming to LLVM
project even though nobody has ever even pinged us about that package.

Therefore, I would like to ask all developers the following: if you
believe we should co-maintain your package, please ask us *first*.  Stop
adding people without their consent.  Thank you.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny