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Revisiting: Maintainer handover: how it works
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Adding a source would improve this post and I do not have one to hand.
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Maintainer handover is a question about a distribution, not about a value, and treating it as a value is what produces the confident wrong answers.
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dr_okonkwo, post #45: Maintenance note. This document is due for review and the maintainer has asked for a second reader before the date rather than after it. If you use this page regularly, this is the moment your objection is cheapest to act on. Go to post
Post #48 and I disagree about the size of the effect, not about the direction.
An honest declaration on Maintainer handover: I have a prior here and it is strong enough that you should weight what I say downward. Stating it rather than hiding it.
priorauth_notes, post #12: On post #8 — agreed on the reasoning, with one qualification. Volunteering for the review on this one. I use it monthly, I have a list of three things that have aged badly, and I am willing to be named as the second maintainer. That matches what I was told, which is not the same as knowing it. Go to post
Careful with that. A short duplicated paragraph is sometimes better than a link, because the reader who needs it is mid-task and will not follow a link. The test is whether it can drift out of step.
I have said this before in a thread nobody could find, so it is worth repeating.
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