Re: package maintainers vs owners

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Tobias Nygren wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:41:51 +0100 (BST)
> David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> >         I'd like to suggest we add a new pkgsrc value "OWNER" for
> >         the first, and leave MAINTAINER for the second.
>
> I'm strongly in favor of this. Infrastructure update should be as
> trivial as:
> OWNER?=         pkgsrc-users%NetBSD.org@localhost
> MAINTAINER?=    ${OWNER}
>
> This does mean some current maintainers need to update their packages
> to become owners, but if they care strongly about a package I don't
> think this is unreasonable to ask for.

        I'm tempted to say packages should have either a MAINTAINER or
        OWNER, but never both. That means no change to the vast majority
        of packages.

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