[Rock-dev] Who are the package maintainers?

[Sylvain Joyeux]

>> 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.

Others are *supposed to* follow whatever workflow the package
maintainer and authors decided for this particular package. There are
rules for rock core because all the rock users rely on it, but outside
the core the individual package maintainers should IMO be free to
decide which workflow works best for them.

My point is: they're *supposed to*. There is nothing in github
forbidding them to push to any repository inside the organization they
are part of.

> 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.

Look better, 6 people currently have write access to rock core. In
addition, we're bootstrapping the list of maintainers. In the long
run, you're probably right. In the short term, I am pretty sure that
some of the package maintainers on github still don't have access to
their repositories ...

> 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.
So far, there was no such thing as a "maintainer of an organisation",
only a maintainer of a package. This is what this discussion is all
about: having people, for each package, that feels responsible for the
maintenance of this particular package.

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

Sylvain