Adding "maintainer" to metadata.yaml

[Juan Negron]

+1 on this.
Regarding the format ( or what data to record ), why not all three pieces
of information ( name, email and URL )?
At least name and email should be recorded but I see the benefit on having
the URL in there as well.


Thanks,

Juan


On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Clint Byrum <clint at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> I've been doing some charm reviews, and I am starting to think we cannot
> wait any longer to assign strong ownership of charms to non ~charmers
> members.
>
> While we definitely want to encourage everybody who is interested in
> using juju to consider being a member of ~charmers on Launchpad, that
> requires that you demonstrate the necessary trust and restraint to
> "have root on everybody's boxes", and not everyone will want to have
> that responsibility.
>
> So we need to act quickly, and add a strong, explicit relationship between
> users who are the "maintainer" of a charm. ~charmers will still of course
> be empowered to fix the charms in any way necessary, but sponsoring the
> maintainer's changes in should be the priority for ~charmers members.
> Also, maintainers should feel a sense of ownership of the charm.
>
> I'd like to start recording maintainer: in metadata.yaml now, even though
> juju and the charm browser will effectively ignore this. I think the
> format should be either a name/email, or a URL pointing to the user
> or team's Launchpad page. Perhaps that can be extended to all OpenID
> providers in the future.
>
> Thoughts?
>
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