Proof cannot report that the maintainer field is wrong

Bug #1223908 reported by Curtis Hovey
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Juju Charm Tools
Confirmed
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

The majority of charms with errors list bogus maintainers. Authors commonly fork charms without correcting the maintainer field. Charmworld or users might want to contact authors, but it is not possible.

Proof could check for an author email in the env, such as EMAIL or DEBEMAIL and warn when the maintainer field cannot be confirmed. Charmworld's ingest process cannot use such a solution though. Maybe it could pass the branch location to proof to do a sanity check -- this is fraught with problems because anonymous process cannot see Lp email addresses and teams rarely have email addresses.

In general, we don't want to see Mimms and Ceppi blamed when someone else made the mistake.

Tags: charmbrowser
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in charm-tools:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
Marco Ceppi (marcoceppi)
Changed in charm-tools:
milestone: none → 1.3.0
Marco Ceppi (marcoceppi)
Changed in charm-tools:
milestone: 1.3.0 → none
status: Triaged → Confirmed
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