Re: package ownership in Debian
On 7/28/06, Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@hogyros.de> wrote:
Hello,
Gustavo Franco wrote:
> * The package that contains only the Maintainer field with the name of
> a person and not a group can be uploaded by any DD. ping the current
> maintainer is good but not required;
I propose that under that policy, if someone NMUs a package without
clearing the patch with the maintainer first, that person is responsible
for the package until the maintainer acknowledges or reverts the NMU.
The rule of sending a patch to the BTS and giving a bit of time to reply
serves quality assurance more than it hurts, because you get a second
opinion, from a person who is familiar with the package.
I reverted my opinion, agreeing with Joerg's idea.
> The core stuff will be more flexible and well maintained, if we don't
> have groups where just one person do all the work and others are there
> just to look cool.
But that is exactly what happens if you force group maintenance on
everyone. Only that within a group, you cannot even point at somebody
and say they are responsible for anything.
Every group has at least one admin. I was talking about avoid one-working-man
groups. You always can blame the group and the group admins. Don't we blame
ftpmasters and their members ? XSF ? same deal.
regards,
-- stratus
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