[pkg-php-pear] Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

[George Danchev]

On Thursday 31 May 2012 11:47:21 Jonas Smedegaard wrote:

Hi,

> > You and a lot of others fail to realize that the *SPONSOR* is
> > responsible for the package.
> 
> Huh?!?
>
> What does "Maintainer:" mean if not the entity being responsible for,
> well, maintaining?!?

Who is responsible for the package maintenance in the case where a non-DD is 
listed in "Maintainer:", and the package is obviosuly signed and uploaded 
(effectively sponsored) by a DD? I guess it is perfectly reasonable to expect 
that DD, being in the role of sponsor, is responsible for the package quality 
and further maintenance. Sponsors are full-fledged DDs, and trying to claim 
that they are not responsible, or are somehow less responsible than any other 
non-sponsoring DDs, for the uploads they have done, is obviously plain wrong.

> > If the maintainer fails to keep the package in a useful shape it is
> > the sponsor's responsibility to do so. And last but not least it
> > should be the sponsor's decision to orphan a package if the maintainer
> > is MIA or not doing his job properly. It is also the sponsors
> > responsibility to try to figure out if a maintainer is willing to do
> > his job longer than one upload before sponsoring a package at all.
> 
> I have heard before the argument of the sponsor having responsibility,
> but in reality I have *never* heard of sponsors actually being held
> responsible for anything but the concrete upload of a specific packaging
> release.
> 
> ...which leads to my concern for high risk of drive-by contributions!

...hence the Sponsors (who are also a full-fledged DDs) are responsible. It is 
that simple.

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