Charns with Multiple Maintainers

[Michael Nelson]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Charles Butler
<charles.butler at canonical.com> wrote:
> Greetings everyone,
>
> It occurs to me that having a single maintainer of a charm while functional,
> doesn't offer the best route moving forward for a charms longevity. I would
> like to propose a format change to the authorship line of charms allowing
> for more than a single entity to maintain the charm.
>
> My initial thought would be to convert the entry in metadata.yaml from a
> string type to a list type
>
> maintainer:
>     - Jon Doe <jon at example.com>
>     - Steve Doe <steve at example.com>
>
> This seems like it would have larger rippling effects in surrounding
> projects - charmworldlib and juju-gui come to mind.
>
> What do you guys think? Would the above spec work to accomplish the goal?

+1. I needed something along those lines the other week for the
elasticsearch charm I worked on.

Thanks Charles.