[development] Encouraging Collaboration

[Dries Buytaert]

On 19 Nov 2005, at 00:36, Boris Mann wrote:
>>> I had brought up before that we might consider designated  
>>> maintainers for core modules -- see http://drupal.org/node/34439  
>>> -- there are still the majority that are theoretically  
>>> "maintained" by Dries. Dries, do you want to speak up and say  
>>> which ones you *actually* want to maintain, which might be in  
>>> need of an official maintainer, etc.?
>>
>> Having 'official maintainers' matters for me: in the best case  
>> scenario people will bug the maintainer and not me.  Other than  
>> being the official point of contact, very little changes.
>
> Right. That's all that I meant. Later on you say "Don't ask me to  
> write down the list"...I guess what I'm asking is if it would be  
> useful to have the list for some more of the core modules. There is  
> a certain responsibility in that case to look at patches for a  
> particular core module, and then it is known by those people. e.g.  
> James knows that he has to personally look at all Blog API bugs/ 
> features/etc.

James is listed as the blogapi module maintainer, but he somewhat  
stopped caring about it, I think.  He didn't look at any of the  
recent blogapi.module patches.  In my book, James stopped doing core  
development months ago.

> Just as now, any that you feel don't have maintainers (i.e. people  
> with enough trust to be responsible for them) still fall into the  
> everybody looks at them/needs to +1 them. Or, of course, ones that  
> you want to maintain yourself.

Listing someone as the maintainer doesn't change a thing nor is it a  
guarantee for success.  All it does, is associate an e-mail address  
with a module.  If someone wants to be in the MAINTAINERS.txt, drop  
me a mail, or better yet, upload a patch against MAINTAINERS.txt.    
I'll try to update the MAINTAINERS.txt (remove some people, add some  
people) before I roll a Drupal 4.7.0 RC1.

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