Re: Maintainer address for collab-maint team maintained packages
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 05:34:58PM +0000, Bart Martens wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 03:28:55PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > I am participating in a team-maintained package which is hosted on
> > collab-maint.
>
> Which package ?
If that has anything to do with it, it's libopendbx, which has not yet
been pushed to collab-maint.
> > We would like to have the Maintainer: address of that
> > package to forward to all members of the team,
>
> Why would you want to do that ? I mean, is the package you work on related to
> all other maintainers maintaining other packages in collab-maint ?
Misunderstanding, either accidental or deliberate. I want the
Maintainer address to forward to all people listed in Uploaders: of
the respective package, not to all 519 members of the collab-maint
Alioth project. I am not out of my mind.
> http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/CollabMaint
> "not connected to any other teams"
I believe that I am working well within the definition of
collab-maint, thanks for trying to ask in a very subtle way.
> Would modifying lintian be a solution for your problem ?
Probably not, since the people behind lintian usually have sound
reasons for putting in errors and warnings, especially such with
Certainty: certain.
> > There do not seem to be public mailing lists on the collab-maint
> > Alioth project.
>
> Does this one not work ?
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/collab-maint-devel
> "To post a message to all the list members, send email to
> collab-maint-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org."
https://alioth.debian.org/projects/collab-maint/
"Mailing Lists (0 public mailing lists)"
> > Do we really need to create a dedicated Alioth project just to get a
> > mailing list which can be used as Maintainer? Or am I missing a
> > policy-compliant possibility to do this with available resources?
>
> I agree that creating an Alioth project just for the mailing list feels
> somewhat uncomfortable.
Indeed.
Greetings
Marc, now tryin to bring blood pressure down again
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