Re: The end of an era, and the dawn of a new one

On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 12:32:05PM +0000, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> (Narrowing to cvs-ghc for now.)
> 
> Speaking for myself, I would welcome a code-ownership model along the lines that Ben suggests. If it works well it would
>   a) spread the load
>   b) broaden a genuine sense of ownership
>   c) because of (a) and (b), perhaps encourage more people to participate
> 
> What do others think?

"owner" is a very strong word: I think other projects have had problems
where e.g. owners have found themselves without time to deal with
patches submitted, but have been unwilling to let anyone else touch
"their" code.

Perhaps we could have "maintainers" instead?


We actually already have something similar to this proposal here:
    http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Contributors
although it's quite out-of-date, mostly because people tend to fade away
rather than have a definite date on which they stop maintaining
something.


Thanks
Ian