Re: Response to Rik's "Credit the first uploader" post

[email protected] (Ricardo Signes) Sat, 5 Mar 2016 12:10:38 -0500

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* Olivier Mengué <[email protected]> [2016-02-18T05:46:44]
> > When it is a problem -- when the last uploader doesn't want to be the
> > point of contact -- under what circumstances is having someone else be
> > better?
> >
> > * if primary maintainer is active, they can re-release to be the "last
> > uploader"
> > * if primary maintainer is not active, how is listing them any better for
> > the community than the last person? It's still a dead end.
> 
> If the primary maintainer is not active but is bothered for being contacted
> about this old module he abandonned to his co-maints, he could just give up
> his first-come permission to one of those co-maint.

Exactly.

-- 
rjbs

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