Dpkg maintenance changes
(I take the liberty to answer to a private message by Joey Hess in
public. I guess that Joey won't mind as there's obviously nothing
really personal or potentitally harmful in his message, only worrying)
Quoting Joey Hess (joeyh@debian.org):
> FWIW, as a lurker on debian-dpkg, I'm getting the impression Scott is no
> longer maintaining dpkg, but I'm feeling I'm missing some context to
> understand what happened.
Your feeling is right.
Scott announced this in a message titled "Sabbatical" in -devel. Not
being online right now, I can't grab the archive URL but I think
that's enough to find the mail if you're subscribed to -devel. Hint:
it should be somewhere between the Ubuntu flamewar and the Andrew
Suffield flamewar.
Unfortunately, given the neutral Subject I'm afraid it went unnoticed
by many people.
This probably warrants a clearer announcement, possibly in d-d-a
(given the importance of dpkg).
This mini team includes people Scott contacted personnally because he
felt hey were the most involved in dpkg development recently. These
are the people listed in Uploaders for last dpkg upload, namely Frank
Lichtenheld, myself, Guillem Jover and Brendan O'Dea.
The point is now: how to build a team from this..:-)
I think that none of us is in the feeling of keeping the team
closed. We obviously need more (wo)manpower and we also need someone
leading the whole stuff (if I appear to be stepping as this, please
forget about it: I absolutely can't, both for technical and schedule
reasons)
I think we really should announce all this more widely, in order to
avoid any misunderstanding. It is obvious to me that Scott's message
is very likely to have been missed by many people.
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