> Tim is a great team leader and incredibly skilled with programming and > seeing both the trees and forest. > > But Tim is only one person. > > There are many patches that have been submitted to the bugzilla. Those > patches have yet to be merged. > > Many of those patches directly affect building packages. Perhaps I'm out > in left field, but seems to me that all build related bug reports should > be resolved as fast as possible. Any such report with a patch should be > merged within a day or two. Granted, often we bypass the bugzilla and > resolve build related bugs directly in this list, but I'm addressing those > that do get filed in the bugzilla. > > Is Tim the only person qualified or allowed to merge patches? He has to > sleep too and should not be the only person merging patches. Many of the > patches are nominal or trivial. Others should be able merge those types of > patches. If Tim is not the only person, is anybody who has GIT access > interested in merging those patches? > > If Tim is the only person then why don't we have alternates to share the > load for when Tim is busy with other life requirements? > > All of this leads into an important topic. Where do we stand when Tim has > to devote time and energy to other life requirements? Do we have a Plan B > to keep the project moving forward? Seems to me that whenever Tim is not > merging patches the project grinds to a halt. That's a high compliment to > Tim, but an uncomfortable reflection on the project. :( > > Darrell Serghei also has commit access. I have been waiting to merge patches until I can build test the packages, but with recent changes I am waiting on an archive rebuild for Ubuntu. Tim