Re: Maintainer and uploaders fields of debian-med packages
Le Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 08:00:03AM +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote:
>
> >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? ;-)
I have an inbetween point of view, that is why the list is maintainer of
all the packages I created. On the other hand, I agree with Andreas that
team work is not limited to uploading packages. We could for instance
list ourselves on a voluntary base on the DebianMed wiki page, or on the
www page (sorry Tobbias), for instance, to underline the fact that there
is a real active team.
For the uploaders field, I think that the least work is to add oneself
when uploading if one plans some other work in the future (otherwise NMU
is enough). Keeping the uploaders field up to date in all the packages
would be boring and error-prone in my opinion. In contrary to the GNOME
packages, ours are not updated frequently, so autogenerating the
uploaders field with a big list of people would not be effective.
But feel free to add yourself as an uploader of the packages I
created :)
Have a nice day,
--
Charles Plessy
http://charles.plessy.org
Wako, Saitama, Japan
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