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To quote Gross Pointe Blank (mainly because I like quoting Gross Pointe Blank, rather than for any real reason)
Martin: Whole grain pancakes and an egg-white omelette, please.
Waitress: What would you like in your omelette?
Martin: Nothing in the omelette. Nothing at all.
Waitress: Well, that's not technically an omelette.
Martin: Look, I don't want to get into a semantic argument about it, I just want the protein, all right?
To add context of why the FOTANGO company account was set up, it was a reaction to the opposite problem we had: Employees are short lived too. Traditionally Fotango let people release modules on their own accounts. But then we had a case of someone leaving the company and then going unresponsive to patches to a module they originally developed for the company that the company was still developing.
I guess you're damned if you do, you're damned if you don't.
I'd suggest for all future people doing this that they give co-maint rights to all the authors. That still leaves the question of how to change primary owner rights; Some sort of dead man's handle where co-maints can take over primary ownership? A bigger issue than I need to address today.
Still, the thing about making omelets is that you have to break a few eggs (groan.)
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My apologies.
I didn't suggest to imply it was some kind of surreptitious takeover
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My apologies.
I didn't suggest to imply it was some kind of surreptitious takeover.
For smaller companies, the way we recommend you set up shared release is to identify one person as a responsible headline/lead developer.
In this scenario we're talking the likes of Matt Sergeant, Brad Fitzpatrick, Jesse Vincent. People with a more public profile, people who won't just vanish, and ideally people that are part owners.
When an employee uploads a package, you transfer all of the primary namespace rights to this hea
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If we were to start allowing company logins in numbers, I suspect we'd really need to look at some kind of function to say what to do on the death of the company.