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From: Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Fixing elasticsearch maintainer
Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 22:59:16
Message-Id: 884d69a9-d211-3ea4-7a1a-868c781921ba@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Fixing elasticsearch maintainer by Kent Fredric
1 On 05/20/2017 12:43 AM, Kent Fredric wrote:
2 > ef2b2458815ba4e4694e0d5f3bbce239505ffbc8 - 2015-12-20
3 >
4 > Idella4's last commit on this package.
5 >
6 > 3d70356565d3213c370e1f64a85b55c3ded259f5 - 2016-01-06
7 >
8 > Patricks first direct commit to this package.
9 >
10 > <<a dozen version bumps by patrick here>>
11 >
12 > e6175815b5792f09acd90627af5fe23f616ad245 - 2016-09-02
13 >
14 > Patrick adds himself and Tomas, and removes Proxy Maint.
15 >
16 > ^^^
17 >
18 > This last commit is, as I understand, where most this conflict comes
19 > from.
20
21 fwiw, Thomas explicitly requested proxy-maint to stay on as maintainer
22 at this point. "Given this information, I'd
23 like to return the proxy maintainers team to the metadata so I'm able to
24 open PR via github and manage changes even without Patrick."
25
26
27 >
28 > But it makes more sense to realise who the primary proxied maintainer
29 > was at this time, who can be considered "owning" the package, and has
30 > the right to dictate which gentoo dev's maintain their packages for
31 > them.
32
33 At some point they likely should establish a project and discuss things
34 internally before making changes. But on a post-hoc-basis the
35 determination will need to be based on documented history.
36
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