On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 12:16:28 +0000,
"\"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson\"" <johannbg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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.
Wanting to be able to do that is one of the ways you get get proven packager
status. That is essentially why I have that status. I mostly use it to
fix games and I also usually ask for co-maintainer status, but I also
go around fixing FTBFS issues for packages I don't want to co-maintain.