Make pkgdb grant co-maintainer status automatically? (was Re: Non-responsive maintainer fast track procedure for libsndfile)

[Sven Lankes]

On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 09:21:29AM +1000, Chris Jones wrote:

> This seems to be happening a lot lately regarding maintainers and/or
> co-maintainers losing interest in their projects somewhere along the
> line and just stopping development without any warning and
> notification to other members who may be interested.

Maybe we could tweak the pkgdb in a way that a co-maintainer request
would automatically be granted if it isn't answered within a long enough
timeframe (say 8 weeks).

That way packages with AWOL maintainers could grow co-maintainers
without going through the complicated AWOL-process.

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