Re: New maintainer process (was Re: [Maintainers] SDL.NET package - set of object-oriented CLS-compliant)

[Gustavo De Nardin (spuk)]

* Adam Williamson <awilliamson@mandriva.com> [2008-05-22 11:34 -0700]:
> On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 20:23 +0200, Nicolas Vigier wrote:
> > On Thu, 22 May 2008, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > In case anyone missed it, the obvious implication of my mail was that
> > > the current (lack of a) procedure is a) arbitrary, b) rather insecure
> > > and c) deeply offputting to potential contributors, so we should really
> > > make up a better one. :)
> > 
> > I agree that we should have more clear rules so that potential
> > contributors know what they need to do if they want to become maintainers.
> > 
> > I suggest that before being given a maintainer account someone need to have :
> > - at least 2 packages approved by 2 maintainers
> > - someone who accept to be mentoring the new maintainer for the first
> >   few weeks/months :
> >   * helping with the use of the build cluster
> >   * checking commits
> > 
> > What do you think ?

Sound good. But I agree with AdamW below.


> Yes, but we need more than just rules, we need a proper infrastructure
> to make sure they're actually applied. This should be handled through
> some kind of management interface (probably on maintainers.mandriva.com
> or something), as it is for other projects, which would make handling of
> it far more public, trackable and consistent.

We have "Accounts" under Bugzilla product "Mandriva Build System":
https://qa.mandriva.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Mandriva%20Build%20System&format=guided

Do you think we need a more specialized interface?