[Pkg-drupal-devel] Collaborative Maintainership of new drupal
packages
Marcus Better
marcus at better.se
Thu Jan 4 07:59:05 CET 2007
Hi,
> To be honest, I must admit that this is my first try at collaborative
> maintainership (if this succeed, other packages could be
> collaboratively maintained in future) and that I'd like to keep some
> control over the process for the first releases, until I find my best
> way to interact with other members.
I have some experience of team maintainership from tikiwiki and the Java
packaging team. If I may share some experiences from that, I would suggest
that you remain Maintainer, at least initially, and not have a team in that
position unless you know they are as active as yourself. Co-maintainers can
be listed as Uploaders. With Tikiwiki, I have found it difficult to find
people who were willing to actually do some work, and having a one-man team
is no fun.
The Java team works somewhat better, but the constant problem is that
co-maintainers "forget" about a package they worked on, without formally
stepping back, resulting in packages that are effectively orphaned [1].
Good luck!
Marcus
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2006/10/msg00021.html
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