On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:03:03AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> I'm a member of the pkg-ruby-extras team. In this team, we use the
> following scheme for the Maintainer and Uploaders fields:
> Maintainer: "main responsible person for the package" (ie best contact
> point)
> Uploaders: the team mailing list, + all the members of the team
> (auto-generated using a cdbs rule)
In the OCaml team we do the following:
Maintainer: the team mailing list
Uploaders: all the members of the team
I actually want to change this policy so that Uploaders only list people
who "cares" for a given package inside the team. A reasonable definition
of "cares for" can be: have their name in the changelog of that package
at least one time or something such.
> This is not optimal:
> - this generates very long DDPO pages, with lots of packages people
> don't care about:
> http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net
I do think this is an issue, but at a different level. The DDPO is
already able to distinguish packages in which you're listed as an
uploadeder, it shows them in blue. I think we need some more
fine-grained filtering, like the following two:
- please do not show me packages of which I'm just an uploaded
- please do not show me packages team-maintained (that's of course a bit
more tricky, since it requires team-knowledge for DDPO, but I think
this kind of information would be useful elsewhere for QA purposes)
> - it's difficult to keep track of who is caring for that package (hint:
> QA, MIA, ...)
Uh? Why? Your maintainer field seems to address this issue. In our
scheme that's would be more a problem, but if the mailing list is
responsive it's enough. Think for example at the debian-release mailing
list: it's a list, but it's really responsive for all packages in the
archive. So IMO not being able to identify a single person is not
necessarily an indicator of unresponsiveness for a given package.
> Shouldn't this be documented somewhere (developer's reference ?) ?
I think we really need to document a best practice for this, thanks for
bringing it up.
Cheers.
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