[asterisk-dev] [policy] Bug Tracker Workflow Discussion

[Chris Tooley]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Russell Bryant <russell at digium.com> wrote:
>
> Johansson Olle E wrote:
>> Here's the core. Russell has final veto, and who gave him that?
>>
>> Please observe that this is a procedure discussion, not a discussion
>> about a person...
>
> I would say Kevin probably has the final final veto.  :)
>
> Anyway, there certainly hasn't been a procedure.  It's just been how
> things have played out.  This was obviously Mark's project.  He passed
> the torch to Kevin.  Since then, for a lot of the more day-to-day like
> decisions, that torch has been passed to me.
>
> I'm always open for suggestions and discussion about policies and
> whatever else that may help more effectively run this project.
>
As no one person has the ability to even come close to being an expert on
the entire code base, I'd vote for the lieutenant model.  Not necessarily
someone that "owns" a piece of code, but more likely someone that knows
most about a particular group of applications, resources, channels, etc and
can make informed decisions about direction and appropriateness of things
that need committed, delayed or seriously reworked.  Maintainer is, to me,
an ugly name for the task, it reeks of code-ownership, which is almost never
a good thing.

But, that's just my opinion.