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

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 13:39:43 +0100, Richard wrote:

> So I think it's valid for packages to have 0, 1, 2, or more
> maintainers.

Why 0? Who will be notified about bugzilla tickets? Who will receive
mail sent to the PACKAGE-owner Fedora e-mail alias?

For each package in the collection, there ought to be at least (!) one
maintainer, who wants to be responsible for taking care of the package.

> If #maintainers == 0 then the package is either just sitting there (as
> long as there are no serious bugs), or is being best-effort maintained
> by provenpackagers, at least until that becomes a burden and only then
> should the package be dropped.

Sounds like the infamous dumping-ground for packages. Welcome back,
contrib.redhat.com! Or what? "Best-effort maintained" ranging from
"no effort" to "over-ambitious upgrade hell".