Unanticipated problem with grandfathering package names

[andk]

Today I received a request from MSCHILLI and GAAS to enable MSCHILLI to upload a libwww-perl-6.06 and get it indexed. On Michael's first attempt Pause had rejected the upload with the famous

    This distribution name can only be used by
    users with permission for the
    package libwww::perl, which you do not have.

Indeed Gisle had no chance to pass Michael the permissions for the imaginary libwww::perl because they only exist in the comaint-relevant table ("perms").

As a quick workaround I gave Michael the perms manually and hope that the indexer will pick it up correctly.

mysql> insert into perms (package,userid) values ('libwww::perl','MSCHILLI');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

The question is: how do we want the workflow to work for grandfathered package and new comaintainers. The manual approach is not attractive. Add them all to primeur? Enforce a change of the name is a bit too brutal for my taste. I'm unsure whether there are more options I'm currently not thinking of.

Thanks,