"Critical" projects and volunteer maintainers
"Critical" projects and volunteer maintainers
Posted Jul 14, 2022 10:51 UTC (Thu) by willy (subscriber, #9762)In reply to: "Critical" projects and volunteer maintainers by milesrout
Parent article: "Critical" projects and volunteer maintainers
There's a transitivity problem with this solution. I send an email like this to the maintainer of libfoo which I use. But libfoo depends on twenty other libraries. So now the owner of libfoo has to get libbar01 to libbar20 to agree too. And their libquux001 to libquux197. And ...
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