Hi, Am Samstag, den 04.07.2009, 01:54 +0100 schrieb Iain Lane: > On 3 Jul 2009, at 23:22, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > The policy for Uploaders that I’m proposing is the one used by the > > DPG: > > Whoever does a (non-trivial) change to a packge, especially whoever > > triggers an upload, puts himself into the Uploaders: field. > > > > This, first of all, ensures that the upload is not considered a NMU. > > Additionally, the Uploaders: field reflects who cared for a package in > > the past. This is more useful than the alternative, which would be > > always including all team members in Uploaders. > > I disagree with this. The uploaders field should be used to list co- > maintainers of a package (tools such as DDPO reinforce this view), and > as such it should be a deliberate choice to list oneself there. In my > opinion Lintian gets it wrong here when a package is team maintained. > There are plenty of circumstances where one may wish to touch a > package but not commit to any kind of long term duty of care. > > Having a selective Uploaders list for each package also allows for > individuals to be prodded when there is some pressing issue that needs > taking care of. > > In short, having long Uploaders fields makes it worthless for its > intended purpose in my opinion, not to mention the fact that the > information about who has touched a package in the past is present in > the changelog - that's what it's for. :) Just to be sure: You would like to see even less people mentioned in Uploaders:, so people who do an upload, but don’t feel especially attached to the package would not add themselves to it? IIRC, it’s not only lintian that then considers it a NMU, but also dak, i.e. when it comes to closing bugs, but that might be old information. Note that I agree that members who touch a package in a minor way and who do not cause (do/request) an upload do not need to add themselves to Uploaders. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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