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

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 10:32:06AM +0200, Sven Lankes wrote:
> 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).

+1, good idea.

Rich.

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