Re: Barriers between packages and other people

[Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>]

Hello,

On Sat 21 Dec 2024 at 08:09am +01, Gioele Barabucci wrote:

> On 21/12/24 03:11, Sean Whitton wrote:
>>> an alternative that I was thinking of, is making this "everybody is onboard"
>>> policy more explicit by having a special email to use for the Maintainer
>>> field. For example:
>>>
>>>      Maintainer: Debian community <debian-community@lists.debian.org>
>>>
>>> The stewards of the package could be listed as Uploaders, as it currently
>>> happens with team-maintained packages.
>> We don't need new vocabulary and a new mailing list for this.
>> Let's use:
>>      Maintainer: Debian developers <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>
>>      Maintainer: Debian contributors <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>
>> (lowercase 'd' deliberate)
>> We could replace the LowNMU wiki list with this, right now.
>
> That would be great!
>
> Wouldn't this however require instructing reportbug and BTS not to send bug
> reports to debian-devel@?

Hmm.  I wouldn't mind the bug reports hitting -devel; it doesn't seem
any different from all the ITPs?

-- 
Sean Whitton