[Rock-dev] Who are the package maintainers?

[Steffen Planthaber]

Hi,

Am 24.03.2015 um 13:20 schrieb Sylvain Joyeux:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 4:49 AM, Steffen Planthaber
> <Steffen.Planthaber at dfki.de> wrote:
>> Actually, only someone with write access can change the manifest.xml to
>> update the maintainer itself. I know that having write access is not the
>> same as maintainer (which could leave rock development) but having write
>> access is a similar responsibility and will never outdate.
>
> This is where you are wrong. It seems that for some people I have made
> a mistake, but I still am optimistic that we can behave all adult
> software developers,
I don't know what you are talking about here and what was the initial 
issue to this topic, just giving my thoughts.

> and realize that the maintainer of a package is -
> in the end - the one which sets the rule for it. Ergo, if you aren't
> create a pull request.

This is what I mean. The maintainer ->must<- be among those with write 
access to the repo, others ->have<- to use PRs anyways.

So maintainners can only be the guys who have write access, lets say for 
rock-core, jacob thomas and you, all others can't be a maintainer, as 
they cannot accept PRs at all.

The maintainer of an organisation can still delegate reviews of PR's to 
others, but he is responsible for merging the PR in the end.

Or is the list you propose for you three to decide who should do the review?

I still don't get the point of it.

>
>> I also think it would be rather beneficial to use the manifest.xml ONLY
>> for dependencies and put extra information in the readme.md that is
>> automatically displayed on github.
>
> Actually, it should be in both. The autoproj-based tooling cannot
> reliably parse the markdown information.

Ok! I just never used tooling that gives me the author or maintainer.

Steffen


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