Conflict solving and maintainer

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 4:20 PM, C. Boemann <cbo at boemann.dk> wrote:
> My suggestion for this was similar:
>
> A citizens list (great name Ian). I'm thinking of a mailing list to keep track
> of that, which can also serve the dual purpose of holding talks on delicate
> matters, for which only the citizens should have a say.
>
> Votes for maintainer ship possible if two citizens ask for it. And no more
> than one election per app per 6 months.
>
> Done. No maintenance, no nothing. Only ever comes up in case of need

It is questionable if you even need the classical "maintainer dude" any more.

In Amarok, all of our core developers (or "citizens") are basically a
team of maintainers. And we always try to resolve conflicts by
consensus. Only if that fails (very rarely), then we might do a
voting. That happens maybe once a year or so.

-- 
Mark Kretschmann
Amarok Developer, Software Engineer at KO GmbH
Fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe
http://amarok.kde.org - http://fsfe.org - http://kogmbh.com