On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 06:08:24PM -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
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
What if we made the options be about _the package_ rather than about
the maintainer's prickliness? Rather than "Please don't touch my
package" (I know that's not your wording; added for emphasis) make it
"This package has unusual complications; please coordinate any changes
with the package maintainers."
Well, except, less wordy. :)
And, in thinking about it, I don't think we should encourage the
option of "Don't even ask". If there really _is_ something that's a big
deal, the package maintainer can always say no when asked.
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Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader