contributions

[Morten Kjeldgaard]

It seems the main concern of many of the posters in this thread is  
that you may have a package you care about and would like to  
maintain, and you do not want a random contributor grabbing it in  
front of your nose.

I am a big believer in letting computers solve as many problems as  
possible. That way we humans don't need to argue needlessly :-)

The concern above can be solved if people subscribe to bugmail for a  
specific source package that they want to claim. If that involves  
several people, they will have to work it out among themselves. This  
can be detected by software (i.e. MoM or other automated procedures)  
and a note could be given that a given package is claimed and should  
not be touched unless otherwise agreed.

My guess is that the number of claimed packages is rather small, and  
that in most cases, the last merger will be happy that someone else  
carries out the next merge.

Cheers,
Morten

PS: At the moment, there is collective maintainership of all packages  
in Universe. Does this discussion in reality stem from a wish that  
Ubuntu maintainership of some packages should be possible? If so,  
that question should be dealt with politically.