Re: Towards consensus of our usage of the Uploaders field

[dann frazier <dannf@dannf.org>]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 02:19:11AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Thursday 15 March 2007 21:32, dann frazier wrote:
> > Given this, I believe anyone on the kernel team should be permitted an
> > entry in the Uploaders field. I also do not believe that the presence
> > of a maintainer's name in the Uploaders field grants them any
> > additional privileges. Uploads still need to be coordinated on the
> > mailing list, etc.
> 
> In the D-I team we treat the Uploaders field differently. Uploaders are 
> people who actually coordinate the package or do frequent uploads because 
> of their role in the project (e.g. the release manager).

Thanks for this description Frans. Is this treatment simply "the way
it has always done it", or are their other justifications/polices
around it?

For example, if you are not currently in Uploaders and you wish to do
an upload, do you just add yourself to Uploaders and upload? Or, must
you achieve a rough consensus among the other uploaders and/or the
release manager? Or, eg., does the d-i team use this because they
believe it provides information to the outside world such as "these
are the people I need to poke about accepting my patch", etch?

-- 
dann frazier