[Sugar-devel] Eliminate Glucose co-maintainers

[Simon Schampijer]

On 11/22/2010 03:04 AM, Martin Dengler wrote:
> I propose we eliminate "co-maintainers" from Glucose[1] because they
> reduce the responsibility and pressure of a sole maintainer.

I see it the other way around. Reducing the pressure on a maintainer is 
a good thing. If we only have one person doing the work we have a bottle 
neck. This person gets tired more quickly. Furthermore we are a 
volunteer based open source project. If people step down due to any 
reasons it is good to have peers that can take over and that have been 
involved in the process before.

As example see the localization situation. Sayamindu stepped down (he 
was the single coordinator) and we did not know what to do for 
localization then.

About responsibility, of course I can only report about my experience 
from being a co-maintainer: I don't think I have been caring less about 
the shell release just because I have been the co maintainer.

Regards,
    Simon