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On Tue, 31 Oct 2017 00:17:38 +0100 |
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Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> The generic image would be |
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> 'we use GitHub for internal work with our proxied maintainers, external |
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> contributions go via whatever else'. |
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Maybe, along with the proxy-maintainers whitelist, you could provide support |
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for other maintainers/teams being added to the whitelist? |
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And perhaps each whitelist entry should contain a note describing how proxy-maint are supposed |
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to respond if they find a package that mentions that alias, but appears inactive. |
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I would consider said list to be able to enumerate things like: |
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"sure, my name is foo, and I'm the maintainer for this, but please ping this other person |
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and have a conversation with them on IRC about this package and not just maintain it" |
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Having a tag exclusively for "proxy maint aren't to touch this and this could lag for a long time" |
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might also be useful, as well as telling end users when that tag gets applied what it means. |
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eg: "Hi, this package is maintained by <blah> who doesn't/tends to respond slowly to github requests, |
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... it may be worth your time to file a bug on bugs.gentoo.org instead and close this PR" |
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In short, we need more and better communication, not less. |
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