Dealing with the "my packages" problem

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

tl; dr: I have submitted the following RFE for pkgdb:
  https://github.com/fedora-infra/pkgdb2/issues/274
Please add comments there if you have any.

I know I'm not the only provenpackager to have applied a bugfix to
someone's package only to be yelled at it for it.  Some maintainers are
more prickly about having others touch the packages they maintain for
the community than others, and unfortunately there's currently just no
way to know whether you'll be thanked or flamed for helping out with a
package.

After some IRC discussion I've come to the following proposal: that
maintainers have some way to easily indicate how open they are to
external contributions.  Basically this would take the form of a few
options in pkgdb where maintainers can indicate their willingness to
have provenpackagers carry out a few actions.  Please read the github
ticket for details:
  https://github.com/fedora-infra/pkgdb2/issues/274

This would be purely advisory, with hopefully reasonable defaults.  I
believe it has the potential to eliminate quite a bit of friction that
provenpackagers must handle, as well as eliminate the hesitation some of
us feel for fear of being flamed.

 - J<