Re: A summary of some open discussions

[Andreas Enge]

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 09:02:36PM +0000, Brandon Invergo wrote:
> We have started to recognize people as having release-upload rights, even if
> they aren't formal maintainers (this is really fairly recent and so far has 
> been
> handled on a case-by-case basis).

Is there a need to distinguish "releasers" and "maintainers"? I would say
that once the glibc community trusts someone enough to make their releases,
this person should obtain upload rights on the GNU ftp server. And then
it would be logical to call this person a "maintainer", since uploading a new
release is formally the most powerful act in maintaining a package (while
practically, of course inspiring the development, organising the community
and so on are also very important).

We should also think about the number of maintainers in a redefined
governance structure. Is there a need to restrict their number, or could
each and every developer have the same maintainer responsability? If there
is a fixed number, how could it be related to the size of the project?
It seems natural to me that the GNU libc or GNU Guix should have more
maintainers than GNU MPC, for instance.

Andreas