Re: less is somehow in a sour state

[Nicholas Bamber <nicholas@periapt.co.uk>]

So you would want an extra control field "extra-contacts" being a list 
of emails that would receive the same emails as the maintainer but would 
have no special privileges with respect to uploading or ownership of the 
package except possibly to orphan the package in some circumstances. Or 
perhaps just a "subscribe to this package" button on PTS.


Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 06:46:44PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
>   
> > No, *cc:ing* the maintainer on a mail sent to *debian-devel* does not make
> > it clear that the question is directed *at the maintainer*.
> >     
>
> Formally you are right, but I would consider a maintainer as "not really
> interested" if he misses the chance to answer this kind of mails.
> That's why I come back to my initial proposal: We should try to reach a
> state where high popcon packages are maintained by more than one person,
> especially if the maintainer does not care about pings like "CCed in
> debian-devel mail about problems in his package".
>
> Kind regards
>
>         Andreas.
>
>