Charns with Multiple Maintainers

[Mark Shuttleworth]

On 11/03/14 16:14, Charles Butler wrote:
> Incoming thread necromancy
>
> Have we come to a general consensus on adding a new flag for
> "maintainers" to list multiple maintainers, and leave "maintainer" in
> place?  
>
> What kind of implications does this have when someone adds themselves
> to "maintainers" with a "maintainer" left in the metadata? are they a
> sub maintainer? 
>
> I'd like to have a clearly defined agreed upon request so I can file
> the bug and champion its resolution. While its not mission critical, I
> fear this will go stale if we don't move on it soon.
>

My 2c - support maintainer and maintainers equally, make them additive
and non-exclusive, and recommend people just have a "maintainers" field
which lists one or more maintainers. That way existing charms continue
to work just fine, people can add and evolve to the new outline over time.

Mark