Modules and Maintainers

[Allen Winter]

On Tuesday 18 December 2007 13:27:28 Cyrille Berger wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 December 2007, Thomas Zander wrote:
> > KOffice doesn't have a maintainer, and there are various apps that are
> > unmaintained (and buggy).
> 
> KOffice has a release coordinator (Boudewijn Rempt for 2.0), is unaffected by 
> the work of the release team (as long as they released kdelibs ;p ) and has 
> even a completely different release schedule.
> 

"Coordinator" is probably a better description of what I am proposing.
"Maintainer" is too strong.

Or maybe even "Release Team Representative".

I simply think each module (including KOffice) should have a person
(and a backup person?) who can help make release decisions with
the needs of that module in mind -- a person who knows something of
the future planning for that module; etc.  I'm not talking about someone
who takes charge of all aspects of the module and is the final authority
for all module decisions.