Re: Removing lead maintainers

On 26 Feb 2004 at 16:04, Klaus Guenther wrote: > Just wondering here... > > I'm in a situation with one of the packages that I took over > (Numbers_Roman) where the previous lead (Sterling) is being bothered > with bug reports, feature requests, and such like. While I recognize > that it's polite and all that to keep someone in the loop, if they > expressly don't want to be bothered by such things, it might not be > bad to simply remove them from the package.xml and the site. Of > course, their name is still in the file as an author, or whatever. > That way they still get the credit -- and if they wish to come back > and get involved again, I'd see no problem with that at all. I've been in the same situation myself. Since the original author didn't strongly say he doesn't want to be associated "with such a crappy package anymore" or something I changed the role to "helper", so he is at least listed for that package. However, general I think leaving a note in the README of the package or similar is okay/enough in most cases. We don't want a list of maybe 10 people someday which are all "former leads", do we? Stefan