Revamping the non responsive maintainer process

[Pierre-Yves Chibon]

On Wed, 2012-11-07 at 10:12 +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote:
> Dne 7.11.2012 10:00, Pierre-Yves Chibon napsal(a):
> > On Wed, 2012-11-07 at 09:49 +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote:
> >> You are still maintainer, you are still owner and you are notified by
> >> email about every change in your package, so you'll be able to catch
> >> such activity pretty soon and act accordingly.
> > To be the devil's advocate, you do get the email but most of the time
> > right after the commit the person will push an update which you're not
> > able to withdraw as you did not create it.
> 
> Yes, update in Bodhi. It takes 7 days to go through review. If it cannot 
> be withdrawen by maintainer or lets say proven packager, then it can be 
> improved.
> 
> > Plus sometime, people takes days off...
> 
> Yes, and if you did mistake before you go to holidays, then what?

Id'think that's also why we have updates-testing

> You can always find some drawbacks with any process, but it doesn't mean 
> that we should not be more open and trust your peers.

Agreed. I was more playing the devil's advocate as I know the situation
has happened before.
People modified a spec thinking that was the way to go, the maintainer
who had the bigger picture was away and the changes had to be reverted
and the package got an epoch.

Pierre