Automating the NonResponsiveMaintainers policy

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 03/02/2012 11:52 AM, Aleksandar Kurtakov wrote:
> So I would make a contra-proposal.
>
> If a maintainer doesn't respond to a bug repord with the status new in a week - give commit rights to the reporter in pkgdb so he/she can fix it himself.
>
> I really think this is way more fare and people that tend to think that packagers are just a bunch of lazy guys should step in do some of this dirty work to get an idea what we speak about.

There currently is no place in the project for people that want to fix 
things without having to maintain packages themselves so I think your 
counter proposal as good as it is can not come to pass until that has 
been fixed.

JBG