Re: Games Team's opinion on "Team uploads"
On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 09:55:05AM -0700, Vincent Cheng wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Juhani Numminen
> <juhaninumminen0@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > There is a rather short paragraph about Team uploads in Developers
> > Reference:
> > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#nmu-team-upload
> >
> > I would like to ask, does one have to add his/her name to Uploaders when
> > doing that kind of team upload?
>
> It's up to you whether you want to include your name as an Uploader or
> not, however note that Policy 5.6.3 requires at least one human
> uploader with a valid email address listed in the Uploaders field in a
> team-maintained package.
>
> If you intend on maintaining the package (rather than it being an
> one-time upload to fix a RC bug, for example), putting your name in
> Uploaders would be a good idea.
Can a few team members confirm that this reflects the team's policy ?
The context of Juhani Numminen's question is RFS bug 691577. It would be nice
to have the team's policy on team uploads documented on a webpage that can
easily found by sponsors.
Regards,
Bart Martens
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