Re: Uploaders automatically set to the last nth workers on a pkg
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 11:10:47AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> > Since the maintainer is the mailing list, the ocaml packages are
> > automatically attributed as co-maintainership to each uploader. If you
> > get dropped from it, because you didn't upload it in some time or
> > whatever, they will automatically be dropped from the PTS
> > package-per-maintainer page, thus giving you less overview of the
> > packages you care about.
>
> The assumption of all this is that the concept of "package you care
> about" is the same as "packages you did something for". With the
> reasoning above you're breaking this assumption.
>
> Also it seem to me that it's bringing us out of track: the goal of the
> PTS is monitoring the packages you're working on, not the packages
> you're interested in as a "lurker".
Well, i consider all the packages i used to maintain as still at least
partly mine, even though i have been forced into the "lurker" role, both
by the sad events of last year which made things difficult for me, and
vastly killed my motivation, and by generally having to work for RL
money and sustaining my family, and thus having less time for debian.
I know my case is special given the witch hunt i was the subject of, but
this make me think about such corner case, and i have still hope that
some day debian will wake up, and behave humanly, but hey ...
> > If you could configure and organise the ppackage-per-maintainer PTS
> > page, you could simply add packages you are interested in and not
> > uploader, and this would not be a problem.
>
> This would be a reasonable feature request for the PTS, but (knowing how
> it's implemented) not easy to add ...
:)
> > I don't think you understood me right, or else i didn't understand yoru
> > answer (or both :)).
>
> Indeed, it was my understanding that you was pointing to some technical
> incompatibility between this idea and the PTS way of handling Uploaders,
> I hope we are better understanding each other now.
Nope, but maybe Sylvain said it better than me :)
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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