[gentoo-dev] Re: packages going into the tree with non-gentoo maintainers

[Stefan Schweizer <genstef@gentoo.org>]

Kevin F. Quinn wrote:
> I don't think it's a good idea for devs to be putting stuff into the
> tree without taking responsibility for it.  
sure I can put myself in there but it will help no one because I cannot test
the thing. Furthermore I am actually part of maintainer-needed and commit
fixes there. I am also on the maintainer-needed email alias.

Also maintainer-needed makes obvious to everyone that they do not have to
ask me to fix sth. or take over the package -> less communication overhead.

> I would expect that either 
> the herd is set appropriately (which means either the committer be a
> member of the herd, or the herd explicitly agree to be proxy), 
which is the case here.

> or the 
> committer be listed as a maintainer email address along with whoever is
> being proxied.  
the committer in this case has no interest in maintaining the thing. And for
proxying it does not matter who is proxying.

> Further I believe bugs against such packages should be 
> assigned to the @gentoo.org address (proxy maintainer if there is one,
> herd otherwise), and CC'ed to the proxied maintainer address.

this does not allow the actual maintainer to close the bug and causes a lot
of bugspam for a person who does not care about it and should be only
contacted in the end to commit fixes/patches/bumps.

Regards,
Stefan

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