Re: package maintainers vs owners

[Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:41:51 +0100 (BST)
David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:

>       I'd like to suggest we add a new pkgsrc value "OWNER" for
>       the first, and leave MAINTAINER for the second.

I'm strongly in favor of this. Infrastructure update should be as
trivial as:
OWNER?=         pkgsrc-users%NetBSD.org@localhost
MAINTAINER?=    ${OWNER}

This does mean some current maintainers need to update their packages
to become owners, but if they care strongly about a package I don't
think this is unreasonable to ask for.

-Tobias