What "openmaintainer" means

[Ken Cunningham]

On 2018-04-25, at 10:13 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> And if there's a need, we could of course define more levels of "how
> closed" a port should be. This is another case where for a lot of
> software updates are usually trivial, while for others it may break
> your system (say, when software switches from C++98 to C++17 and
> completely changes the API :), so the question of whether an update
> counts as a trivial update probably varies wildly from one port to the
> other.

Agreed. The silly little hedgewars game I maintain went from 0.9.23 to 0.9.24 and switched from qt4 to qt5 in the process :>

The whole thing is broken in 0.9.24 until I do some major surgery.

Anyone bumping that port by one single hundredths digit in the patch version is in for a HUGE surprise.

Ken