Re: Moving debootstrap to fully team maintained (drop Uploaders field)
On Wed, 16 Aug 2023 at 17:14, Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Luca,
>
> (1-month lag explained by heavy post-release burnout, which I'm fighting
> hard(er) today to make sure Helmut can make progress.)
>
> Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> (2023-07-18):
> > So, I want to propose to move the package to exclusively team
> > maintained, drop the Uploaders field, leave only the Maintainer field
> > with the current team as-is, and ask anybody who wants to help maintain
> > it to join the installer-team on Salsa and just send changes as MRs,
> > help review/merge them, and do normal uploads, without marking them as
> > NMU nor feeling the need to treat them as NMUs - no need to contact
> > uploaders to ask permissions, delayed uploads, or anything like that.
>
> As others have already pointed out: team uploads are just fine, anyone
> (listed or not in Uploaders) can upload, and we're happy to add people
> to the team on Salsa.
>
> I suspect some people in Debian still expect to retain full “ownership”
> on “their” packages, but it really looks to me the project in general
> moved to a less territorial approach a number of years ago.
>
> As for d-i packages and debootstrap in particular, see my digression
> in #1049898 (https://bugs.debian.org/1049898#15).
>
>
> Also and again: thanks for your work on debootstrap since last year.
Ok, I've added myself to uploaders as suggested here and in:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1049898#15
https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2023/07/msg00147.html
I'll keep doing reviews of MRs and do minor cleanups and maintenance
where I can.
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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