Re: [gentoo-project] Council: Policy for Systemd units

[hasufell]

I am sorry, but I don't even understand what a co-maintainer is.

In my understanding there are only package maintainers. Everyone listed
in metadata.xml is a maintainer and has the competence to do any kind of
changes.

If one of the other maintainers disagree, then it's not a question of
who is the master-maintainer and who is the co-maintainer.

That's an internal problem of those people and they should deal with it.
If they are unable to do that, then they can contact devrel. Period.

If a developer refuses to add enhancements to an ebuild without giving
technical reasons, then it's a matter for devrel as well.

Honestly... In case of systemd I'd just open a bug, attach the fixes and
wait for some time. In case of no response I'd just apply it. If the dev
reverts it without giving a reason, I will contact him and if necessary
devrel.

I don't see a reason to introduce a special policy for this. We could go
on about such things all day, because there are and will be more.

And I am not really sorry about devs dropping maintainership because of
such silly issues. If they can't work out something like that, then it's
better that way.


reasoning > authority