From: Ariadne Conill <ariadne@dereferenced.org>
To: ~alpine/devel@lists.alpinelinux.org, Rasmus Thomsen <oss@cogitri.dev>
Subject: Re: team-maintained packages
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2020 02:54:39 -0600
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Hello,

On Monday, June 8, 2020 2:45:33 AM MDT Rasmus Thomsen wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-06-08 at 02:13 -0600, Ariadne Conill wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > # Maintainer: Alpine KDE team <
> > https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/groups/kde>
> > # Coordinator: Whoever <whoever@alpinelinux.org>
> > 
> > The "coordinator" role would be the preferred member in the group for
> > contact
> > about the package, but the team as a whole could also make decisions
> > about the
> > package as well.
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I think I overall like the idea of having maintenance teams (as long as
> it's not mandatory to be in one to be permitted to touch an APKBUILD),
> but I don't really see the point of having a coordinator. If you have a
> preferred member which should be contacted for changes the APKBUILD
> might as well be maintained by that individual directly.

That is a fair point.

> Also, I'm not sure if we're having enough people who are actually
> interested in forming such teams to make them actually viable. E.g. the
> GNOME team would probably be just me, and KDE possibly you and
> PureTryOut. I think that it might just end up being a lot of
> bureaucracy without any substantial gain in the end when maintainers
> aren't responsive enough and as such core members end up deciding
> whether changes are merged or not in the end anyway.

I think we do.  I also think that with some of the other changes I have in 
mind, we will be able to get more cross-distribution pollination going on in 
the APKBUILDs.  But I am still thinking on the best way to achieve that right 
now.

The idea is to avoid bureaucracy, and just have a group point of contact for 
packages.  Normal policies including non-maintainer pushes would apply to 
group maintained packages.

Thanks,
Ariadne