[ros-users] [Discourse.ros.org] [Packaging and Release Management] Releasing repositories form "other" people

[Martin Günther]

[quote="dirk-thomas, post:1, topic:1797"]
The person making the rosdistro PR is commonly not listed as a maintainer in the upstream package. As a consequence the person doesn't get notified if the packages they released fails now or in the future on the buildfarm.
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... and even if they were notified, there wouldn't be much they could do about it because they don't have push access to the upstream package.

OTOH, when a build for an abandoned package fails in one of the distros it's already released for, we already have the same problem.

I don't really have an opinion one way or the other. Abandoned packages suck, but drive-by releases without willing to commit to maintaining a package are hardly going to fix the problem.






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