whoowns (WAS:Re: bmp still requires ExcludeArch?)

[Dag Wieers]

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Colin Charles wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 16:54 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > > The last time I tested that it compiled, started up, and threw a lot
> > of
> > > noise at me when trying to play .ogg (or .mp3, for that matter).
> > Will
> > > test again.
> > 
> > Colin,  Ralf Ertzinger "owns" the bmp package. I can't comment on
> > whether it works flawlessly on PPC.
> 
> We definitely need some sort of `whoowns` script. I went by last updater
> in spec file (not always the best I guess)
> 
> And searching through bugzilla, is tedious when you're offline and
> trying to get stuff fixed. However, maybe some form a XMLRPC magic to
> connect to Bugzilla and provide such information would be good (at least
> I avoid a web browser)
> 
> That might be a worhty tool for fedora-rpmdevtools as well :)

Why not keep it simple and use metatags in the SPEC file like:

	# Authority: dag

Could be a list of people that share ownership.

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