Re: Games Team's opinion on "Team uploads"
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Bart Martens <bartm@debian.org> wrote:
> 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 ?
Just to clarify, that was my personal interpretation of how things
work here, and may not necessarily be shared by everyone else in the
team.
> 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.
AFAIK, the closest the team has ever gotten to a consensus on how to
approach team uploads is the vote that Tobias administered [1], but I
see that Juhani has already seen that page.
Regards,
Vincent
[1] http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Guidelines
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