maintainer groups

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 07:07:16PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le mercredi 07 mai 2008 à 11:02 -0400, Colin Walters a écrit :
> > That is useful, though I was looking for something that lets me
> > operate on groups of packages rather than individual ones; again so
> > the example is I'd like my Java packages to be owned by something like
> > tag-java at packages.fp.o, and anyone in that group would get CC'd on
> > bugs, could upload, etc.  I guess this would require a tagging system
> > for packages.
> 
> For the font SIG, we have a somewhat weaker setup where a mailing list
> is CC-ed on a lot of package activity by default. That's somewhat
> sufficient for interested packagers to keep in touch without needing to
> collect the info all over the place themselves (still need to find out
> how to CC this list on all changes in the SIG wiki place, esp. the
> WishList changes)
> 
> http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.fonts.bugs
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Fonts/QA/Bugs

That's interesting, thanks.  OCaml needs the same.

FWIW Debian's OCaml group has a mailing list where all bugs for those
packages get assigned by default to the mailing list address.  It
works well.

Rich.

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