concept of package "ownership"

[Dave Airlie]

So I've noticed maintainers of packages in Fedora seem to have a concept
of ownership, and I'm wondering if we could remove that word from usage
about maintainership.

I'm come from working as a maintainer in the kernel, and its long been
said that kernel maintainers don't *own* the code, they are merely the
stewards of the code and the code belongs to everyone. Linus reminds you
of this by routinely doing stuff to code behind your back and when you
give out he reminds you that maintainership doesn't imply ownership.

I see Fedora maintainers as doing things on behalf of the Fedora
project, and not merely providing the Fedora project with stuff they
own, but I see a lot of others see "me owns this package" as the
priority not "me enjoys maintaining things on behalf of Fedora".

Dave.