Saturday, April 30, 2022

Re: [ports discussion] enforcing maintainership?

On Sat Apr 30, 2022 at 04:37:12PM +0200, Solène Rapenne wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't know if it has been debated before but I'd like to propose a
> change, or at least discuss about it.
>
> - people submitting new ports must become maintainer
>
> - ports without a maintainer must find a maintainer
>
> - ports where the maintainer is getting removed or not answering MUST
> find a new maintainer
>
> To make this more feasable, maybe we could create some small groups of
> maintainers for specific areas like language specific ports (ghc,
> python etc..). MAINTAINER could be a single person or a list of person,
> or refer to a maintainer group defined somewhere else.
>
> Like, if you join the python maintainer group, you are fine dealing
> with all the python packages that doesn't have a maintainer (this would
> be set to the group).
>

What problem are you trying to address?

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