Re: all new Debian diagram - now with less chaos!
Kevin Mark <kmark+debian-devel@pipeline.com> wrote:
> although, now I am getting confused about the difference between a
> debian developer and a debian maintainer. I labeled most items with 'DD'
> thinking that's who did stuff. More things to research.
The maintainer is the guy (or entity) who is listed in the Maintainer:
field of debian/control, and who gets all the mail for the package¹.
A debian developer is anybody with an account @debian.org, who can do
uploads to the archive. A Debian developer need not be the maintainer
of any package (doing mainly QA work, or buildd administration, or
whatever), and a package maintainer need not be a Debian developer: They
can have their packages uploaded by a developer who reviewed the
package, but doesn't want to do all the work.
Regards, Frank
¹others can subscribe to this, too, via the package tracking system
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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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