Re: Clarification about the "Uploaders" field
Hi Rhonda and Holger,
On 23 February 2016 at 06:03, Rhonda D'Vine <rhonda@deb.at> wrote:
> How is it a package hijack? It's not replacing the maintainers in any
> way but extending them. It's adding new blood to the spin so to say,
> and the "main" maintainers of the packages are very well invited to
> maintain the packages through backports too. It's even encouraged
> because they are the ones who are expected to be able to judge better
> when it makes sense to upload a backport update than a person outside of
> the loop.
I totally agree with you. Let me explain what happened in a more detailed way:
- One package was team-maintained and the current uploaders couldn't
help me with the sponsorship, so I had to ask a third-party.
- The other one was a case where I couldn't reach the maintainer in
nearly a month, and even when the backport was ACK'ed, he's still too
much busy to sponsor the upload - that's why I asked for this here.
So, in both cases, there wouldn't be a problem if I had reached a
consensus with the maintainers. What happened is that in none of them
they were available.
> It's a matter of preference actually. If you have different means to
> track your backports (by subscribing through the PTS which is encouraged
> anyway) instead of using the DDPO overview then that's absolutely fine.
> One is supposed to track the packages they upload for the lifetime of
> the release cycle; but we don't enforce a "this is the way you have to
> do it" ruling here.
On 22 February 2016 at 16:59, Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> wrote:
> adding oneself to the Uploaders: field when doing backports is a well
> established practice (though not mandatory), in so far I think providing a
> patch to the website making this clear would be appreciated.
I see, although I'm in doubt about what is the best way to do this.
What about adding a note to the item "Before uploading please think
about how useful the package is for stable users and if you want to
support the package until support for the distribution you uploaded
ends" saying something like:
"You should consider adding yourself to the Uploaders field of the
debian/control file or subscribing to the package though PTS. What is
important is that you track the package for the lifetime of the
release cycle."
Is that fine?
Regards,
Tiago.
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