Recently I've noticed number of random people being accepted as maintainers of few apps I'm being a super-maintainer for. First, can the appDB send notifications that some one became a maintainer? Second, what are the basis that appDB admins accept some one as one? I've tried to search for a single message, test results, anything from the people in question and found none.
Should we just make everyone a maintainer? If not, then could anyone spellout why we have some random people there?
Vitaliy.
Vitaliy Margolen <wine-devel <at> kievinfo.com> writes:
Recently I've noticed number of random people being accepted as maintainers of few apps I'm being a super-maintainer for. First, can the appDB send notifications that some one became a maintainer? Second, what are the basis that appDB admins accept some one as one? I've tried to search for a single message, test results, anything from the people in question and found none.
Should we just make everyone a maintainer? If not, then could anyone spellout why we have some random people there?
Vitaliy.
I'm also curious, I think that there should be code of conduct or similar, some app entries don't have objective descriptions and give out of date information
perhaps this appdb bug I filed might be relevant too:
On Thursday 24 January 2008 03:21:45 Jeff Zaroyko wrote:
Vitaliy Margolen <wine-devel <at> kievinfo.com> writes:
Recently I've noticed number of random people being accepted as maintainers of few apps I'm being a super-maintainer for. First, can the appDB send notifications that some one became a maintainer? Second, what are the basis that appDB admins accept some one as one? I've tried to search for a single message, test results, anything from the people in question and found none.
Should we just make everyone a maintainer? If not, then could anyone spellout why we have some random people there?
Vitaliy.
There are no standard guidelines for processing maintainer requests. Personally, I usually accept all entries if they look decent; ie. not garbage characters, non-English language or they expect to get a free copy of the program by becoming a maintainer (and quite a few people seem to expect that!).
We are quite short of maintainers; the test result queue contians some 500 entries, for instance. I guess we could list some additional info about the applicant, and reject his application if he has not submitted any data and the app contains up-to-date info.
I'm also curious, I think that there should be code of conduct or similar, some app entries don't have objective descriptions and give out of date information
perhaps this appdb bug I filed might be relevant too:
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