Re: Solution: secondary maintainer

+1 on this proposal is practical and reasonable. Should not be much of a problem to implement. Not sure about the code but IIRC the package.dtd did not have a limitation on the maintainer roles. --- Greg Beaver <greg@chiaraquartet.net> wrote: > Hi, > > All of the blood spilled over unmaintained packages can be solved in one > simple way: > > If you are a maintainer, and you know that you will be out of contact > for more than a few days (I don't mean unable to fix, I mean mute), you > must assign a secondary maintainer who has both power to fix bugs and to > do releases. This can be arbitrated by pear-group. I would suggest > that a week of no reply should result in a hostile takeover by > pear-group to fix a critical bug with a known fix and do a snapshot > release as suggested by Tomas. All disputes of whether a bugfix works > or not should be settled by pear-group. If the pear-group people don't > have time or technical knowledge of a package, they must delegate > someone else to make the decision, and that person's decision must be > final, or more blood will spill. > > It is the responsibility of maintainers to assign someone (publicly > through a message to pear-dev) as the temporary lead - I'm not sure how > the logistics work through pear.php.net, but I'm sure it can be worked > out easily that this person has the lead role assigned so they can release. > > Any other solution will cause problems. If everyone knows that as a > package lead, your responsibility is to answer questions in a timely > manner, or assign someone else to do it, then there will be no question > of whether a bugfix needs to be committed - you lose control over your > project if you give it up, and otherwise, no one has the right to do > anything to your project and can lose CVS access. > > Sound like a good solution to everyone? > > Greg ===== -- Jesus M. Castagnetto (jcastagnetto@yahoo.com) Research: http://metallo.scripps.edu/ Personal: http://www.castagnetto.org/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com