Patches for trivial bugs sitting in bugzilla -> trivial patch policy?

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 10:47:09 +0200
Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 06/26/2014 06:42 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > Another idea that leaps to mind is to add more provenpackagers...
> > have we set the bar too high so no one wants to apply?
> 
> Debian has packages in collab-maint, where any Debian Developer can
> make changes and upload them.  In Debian, this is purely a social
> convention because the project doesn't have ACLs for Debian
> Developers, but there is a strong notion of package ownership despite
> the lack of technical enforcement.
> 
> Perhaps Fedora package maintainers could set a flag on their package 
> which would grant access to anyone who maintains any other package? 
> This way, package maintainers could gradually reduce the need for 
> provenpackager privileges (similar to what Debian did with the 
> introduction of the Debian Maintainer role, which is also governed by 
> package ACLs).

I think this is overcomplex, IMHO. I think in general people who are
granted provenpackager do a good job, and where they don't they can be
educated and helped. Most any mistake can be corrected... 

kevin
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