Re: Maintainer and uploaders fields of debian-med packages
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote:
I was thinking in a team like the Gnome team, where everybody takes
care of every package.
I think that this makes no sense in our case. We provide some
quite special packages where you might need certain knowledge
to test the package carefully.
If I keep debian-med-packaging as maintainer or as uploader, and
include only me as the package maintainer, it gives the impression
that there isn't a team. (the "team" that I am trying to explain here
is a group of people that takes care of some packages)
What counts are facts, not impressions. If there is a formal team
that consists of one active person and a list of names this makes
no sense. So listing the people who really do *development* work
is apropriate in my eyes. There is no question that other people
care for bugs if they occure - but there is no shame in a NMU.
Finally the user does not care about the NMUish version number nor
the changelog entry (* NMU) but wants a stable package. So I
would think that mentioning the persons that actively work on a
package (how many they are) is the best solution. All others are
bug hunters anyway, right? ;-)
Kind regards
Andreas.
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