No answer to easy bug policy

[Toshio Kuratomi]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>> We could have:
>>
>> "If you don't answer after 2 weeks, a reminder should be sent, and if 
>> not answered within a further 2 weeks My_Username will be assigned as 
>> a comaintainer and can make changes according to the policy stated at"
> 
> I am not sure we want to add someone as a co-maintainer just because the 
> person is interested in seeing a new build with a particular fix. 
> Co-maintainership involves a little more long term commitment than a one 
> time fix.
> 
I see that as a benefit.  It doesn't make much sense to me to make this 
transition::

Package has a maintainer that is active in fedora but is ignoring a 
particular bug report which may or may not contain a correct fix to the 
stated problem => Package becomes orphaned, possibly discarding any 
ideas the maintainer had for fixing the bug but forgot to write into the 
bug report.

This seems like a better transition:

Package has a maintainer that is active in Fedora but is ignoring a 
particular bug report => Package gets a comaintainer who has time to hit 
the low hanging fruit on the package and can take some of the burden off 
of the current package maintainer.

Even the current state of affairs is better for some criteria:

Package has a maintainer active in Fedora but is ignoring a particular 
bug report => Package continues to get updated for new upstream releases 
but the particular bug does not get addressed.

-Toshio

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