Re: [gentoo-dev] Fixing elasticsearch maintainer

[Sam Jorna]

On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 07:47:19AM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> On pon, 2017-05-22 at 11:52 +1000, Sam Jorna wrote:
> > On 18/05/17 02:38, Patrick Lauer wrote:
> > > Since proxy-maint refuses to be removed from packages (especially since they
> > > were unconditionally added to all packages with a non-gentoo-dev maintainer in
> > > metadata) they are the de facto maintainers, and overrule everything else.
> >
> > Just to clarify, the Proxy Maintainers project is not required to be
> > added to all packages maintained by non-Gentoo maintainers. If a Gentoo
> > developer is willing to work with and proxy commits for maintainer(s)
> > without commit access, Proxy Maintainers are happy to be removed. There
> > are several metadata.xml's in the tree with examples, including a few
> > for which you are one of the maintainers.
> >
>
> Just to clarify, this works only if the developer and proxied maintainer
> agree on the terms. It's not 'I remove proxy-maint, and now force you to
> work on my terms that do not fit you because reasons'.

That's why I used the phrase "work with".

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