Re: finally end single-person maintainership
- To: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: finally end single-person maintainership
- From: Bernd Zeimetz <bernd@bzed.de>
- Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 00:59:52 +0200
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On Thu, 2024-04-11 at 22:52 +0000, Bill Allombert wrote:
>
> When a change leads to a RC bug a month or three after having be
> part of a package, fixing the problem falls on the maintainer and not
> on the change author. Even correct changes can trigger latent bugs
> in software.
Yet another reason why using Salsa and its CI *and having autopkg-
tests* is so important - contributors can test their changes before
even asking to merge them. And yes, its up to the 'expert' maintainer
of the package to ensure there are proper tests in place. Because even
that expert is a human only and we all make mistakes.
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Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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