Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/py-faker

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On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 12:12:19PM -0400, D'Arcy Cain wrote:
> On 07/19/2017 11:28 AM, Adam Ciarcinski wrote:
> > Module Name:        pkgsrc
> > Committed By:       adam
> > Date:               Wed Jul 19 15:28:19 UTC 2017
> 
> Not that I have a big problem with it but when I updated a package
> maintained by someone else I got heck for not clearing it with them first.
> Isn't it a rule?
> 
> I'm not married to this package so if you want to take over maintainership
> go ahead.
> 

I dislike this interpretation, pkgsrc.txt says:

  * MAINTAINER is the email address of the person who feels responsible for
    this package, and who is most likely to look at problems or questions
    regarding this package which have been reported with send-pr(1). Other
    developers may contact the MAINTAINER before making changes to the package,
    but are not required to do so. When packaging a new program, set MAINTAINER
    to yourself. If you really can't maintain the package for future updates,
    set it to <pkgsrc-users%NetBSD.org@localhost>.

  * OWNER should be used instead of MAINTAINER when you do not want other
    developers to update or change the package without contacting you first. A
    package Makefile should contain one of MAINTAINER or OWNER, but not both.

Most packages have pkgsrc-users as a maintainer, I feel that's because
people interpret it as OWNER and don't want to be posessive.