Re: Maintainers??

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 10:56, Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 05:28:39PM +0200 or thereabouts, Aschwin van der Woude wrote:
> > Hmm, I see the political difficulties. And it doesn't matter if someone
> > is listed as the queen of England, Holland, Belgium, or whichever. As
> > long as the same email-address as used in bugzilla is listed.
> > 
> > I am only concerned about bugsquatters recognizing a maintainer and thus
> > having the easy decision to ignore the bug-report, even when it seems
> > incomplete. (I made this mistake once already)
> 
> Ah, right. Well, the release team tried to keep an up-to-date
> list of maintainers for the apps in Gnome 2.0. That might help
> for at least some things?
> 
> It is out of date when it comes to 2.1/2. Looking now, I can
> also see some gaps I know the answers to. Ahem.
> 
> Anyway, it's at http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/modules/
> and might help a little bit?

That's the right place, IMHO. Someone (probably release team) needs to
keep it up to date, and we need to link to it from bugzilla. Mucking
with MAINTAINERS (or using the maint-aliases file) is probably something
we don't want to get into.

Luis