Am Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:34:42 -0700 schrieb Smartboy <smartboyathome@gmail.com>:
The reason I've seen against that is that someone could edit a PKGBUILD in order to include malicious content (not like they couldn't do it already, though only with new/orphaned packages). Overall I do think that the ability to allow multiple maintainers would be a good idea since it allows for group collaboration (similar to how subversion repositories allow multiple maintainers).
This is one of the reasons why I think that multiple maintainers can make sense, but a second and further maintainers may only be added by the first, original maintainer. Not everyone (people like Det) should be able to request a second maintenance of a package just because he is just impatient. Heiko