On Sun, Mar 03, 2024 at 12:02:36AM -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote: > Loren, > > Yes, I would say that is generally correct. If you have a package that is > team maintained, it is best under the team namespace. If it is not team > maintained, it is generally best under the debian namespace (which is the team > of all Debian Developers). It makes it easier for others to pick up if > something happens to you. > > However, there may be specific cases where you do want to keep it in your own > namespace. I maintain one package where I am also the upstream developer. I > keep the Debian packaging in my own namespace because I want to have a very > high threshold for other people making changes to it. At this stage, if > something were to happen to me, both the Debian package and the upstream > project would need to be adopted by someone else, which would probably > necessitate a renaming of the project. Down the road, I would like to get > more people involved in both the upstream development and the Debian > packaging. When that happens I will probably move the Salsa project to a team > namespace. > > There is certainly nothing wrong with keeping your project under your own > namespace, but if you would like to move it to the debian namespace, grant me > full access to it (my Salsa username is soren) and I can then move it to the > debian namespace and grant you full access to the project there. Thanks! I've granted you full access to https://salsa.debian.org/penguin359/tiv -Loren > > Soren > > On Saturday, March 2, 2024 11:34:14 PM MST Loren M. Lang wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 02, 2024 at 01:11:46AM +0100, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: > > > In data venerdì 1 marzo 2024 05:12:51 CET, Soren Stoutner ha scritto: > > > > Generally you should create the repository under the debian namespace > > > > > > You need to ask a DD to do that. Non DD don't have permissions for this. > > > > So is having all packages (at least those not maintained by a team) > > under the debian/ namespace considered a best practice for all but the > > most sensitive of packages? Should I actually have my own package > > transfered to this namespace? > > > > I just have a small, CLI package that I maintain alone and, since I > > don't have DD permissions, just assumed that I should put it under my > > own namespace. Is it recommended to just keep it under the neutral > > debian namespace just in case I am no longer able to keep it maintained > > in the future? > > > > My current package is https://salsa.debian.org/penguin359/tiv > > > > -Loren > > -- > Soren Stoutner > soren@debian.org -- Loren M. Lang lorenl@north-winds.org http://www.north-winds.org/ Public Key: http://www.north-winds.org/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: 7896 E099 9FC7 9F6C E0ED E103 222D F356 A57A 98FA
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