Eric Belanger wrote:
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Paul Mattal wrote:
However, I think this only works well when the boundaries/commitments are clear and everyone has buy-in. It's a lot easier to say to a group of developers "guys, please pick up the orphaned packages from this developer who left in [mantle]" when those developers voted to support that package long-term in the first place. I know I'd be more inclined to make the effort to pick up those packages.
I'm not sure about that. We are having problems finding maintainers for the core packages, in fact, some of them are still orphan. I can't think why people would be more inclined to adopt packages in [mantle] when being in core is not sufficient to incite interest in potential maintainers.
I think it's buy-in. I think you'd be surprised at how few packages 50% of the developers would agree to have in [mantle].. or [core] for that matter. - P