On 01/30/2014 01:39 PM, Duncan Coutts wrote:
I should note that a maintainer could pre-approve some helper to whom they can delegate the decision. For example, suppose volunteered to be a person of good taste who would review cases where the package needs fixing in simple ways but the maintainer is away. That person does not have to be the one who develops the fix or even necessarily the person who uploads it. What the maintainer would need to do is to add that volunteer of good taste to the maintainer group, and then that volunteer now has all the same rights as the "real" maintainer and so can upload the fixed package themselves or even add the person who did the fix to the maintainer group too (different maintainers and fixers might agree different policies here).
I don't suppose there's any support for groups in hackage2? I don't know anyone in particular that I'd want to pre-delegate this responsibility to, but I would be fine with e.g. delegating it to "the hackage team" (who I already implicitly trust). They could then make the decision on my behalf, using something like Gershom's "I feel like I can trust this guy" criteria.