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I'm starting to think that the new responsibility should be as small as possible, and build from there. So the smallest bit of (initial?) responsibility expected of the new roster of maintainers could be "maintainer must respond to CC pings on the list within 7 days". For those who have more time to spend on the project, the next rung of responsibility could be "maintainer is available to review patches outside of their domain of expertise if no one else has reviewed the series in 7 days". I haven't thought too much about the "authority" part yet. > The development community has been fairly loosely organized so far, > but I'd like to see responsibility and authority spread a bit more > widely yet still not too thinly to compromise the project integrity. Agreed.