Revamping the non responsive maintainer process

[Vít Ondruch]

Dne 7.11.2012 09:52, Vít Ondruch napsal(a):
> Dne 6.11.2012 16:40, Marcela Mašláňová napsal(a):
>> On 11/06/2012 04:32 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
>>> On 11/06/2012 01:07 PM, Marcela Mašláňová wrote:
>>>> Oh no, you are top posting again ;-)
>>>>
>>>> Could you create fesco ticket for this package? I proposed usage of
>>>> the script in Johann's ticket
>>>> https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/967#comment:7 Imho it might be
>>>> better to give acl to more people, then only punish developers.
>>>
>>> If that's the plan why not drop the ownership model ( a.k.a 
>>> dictatorship
>>> model ) all together so everyone can contribute to every package?
>>>
>>> If the answer to the above is no we cant/wont do that then we need
>>> proper cleanup process "to punish developer" as you put it failing to
>>> understand that packagers/maintainers aren't' the only one in the
>>> community dealing with packages ( QA,Releng,Infra etc )...
>>>
>>> JBG
>>
>> The "dictatorship" is there to safe us from reckless changes.
>
> If you want to be sure, there should be some code review tool in the 
> process, which would allow pear reviews

* of course it should be peer review ;)

> of commits, e.g. if approved packager commits something into package 
> he does not own/maintain, the commit would need to go through 
> peer-review, but any other packager could be the peer.
>
> Moreover every reckless change can be reverted.
>
> Vit
>
>
>
>> If Fedora allow everyone to patch everything, then we have to check 
>> packagers more thoroughly than give them a few reviews usually of one 
>> language.
>>
>> I safe my comments for tomorrows FESCo because we probably can't 
>> reach consensus.
>>
>> Marcela
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