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Re: Maintainer field



How does one join the Debian Perl group? What does it involve?  If
someone can contact me here or on IRC, I'd love to talk about it.

:)

Always wanting to be a better team player,

-Jay

On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 21:16 +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Sat, 19 May 2007 05:18:42 +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> 
> > I took the opportunity to check the Maintainer: and Uploaders: fields
> > in the packages in our repo. Here's a list of the packages where
> > Maintainer: is not set to 
> > "Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>":
> 
> Sorry for the delay in following up on this issue and thanks for all
> replies. I'm trying to summarize them:
> 
> 
> On Sat, 19 May 2007 10:27:20 +0200, Bart Martens wrote:
> 
> > I suggest that you ask explicit permission from the person in the
> > "Maintainer:" field before doing this change.
> 
> Sure, I'll cc the affected persons now.
> 
> 
> On Mon, 21 May 2007 10:46:50 +0200, Krzysztof Krzy?aniak wrote:
> 
> > >libcompress-raw-zlib-perl
> > >Maintainer: Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy) <eloy@debian.org>
> > >
> > >libdata-serializer-perl
> > >Maintainer: Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy) <eloy@debian.org>
> > >(not in the archive)
> > 
> > These two I am preparing now. Eventually they will be Debian Perl
> > Group packages.
> 
> Alright, thanks, so we have a solution here.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 22 May 2007 21:18:17 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 19 May 2007, gregor herrmann wrote:
> > > I suggest that we:
> > > * exchange (or set) the Maintainer: and Uploaders: field for all
> > >   packages that have the DPG in Uploaders and/or have a member of
> > >   the
> > >   DPG as Maintainer: to M: DPG and U: $individuals (that would be
> > >   most of the packages listed above).
> > 
> > We already had this discussion once. 
> 
> Sorry for making a classical "newbie mistake" ;-)
> 
> > I don't agree with this. I
> > think it's wise to list someone as maintainer and the team in the
> > Uploaders in particular when that someone has been maintaining that
> > package long before the team even existed.
> > 
> > I'm perfectly happy with people working on my packages, thus they
> > are in the team but in the end, I want to be listed as maintainer
> > so that I feel responsible to keep them in a good shape.
> 
> That's perfectly ok for me too, thanks for the clarification!
>  
> > > * move the packages that are maintained by someone else to
> > >   ./packages/attic because they only lead to confusion (at least
> > >   on my side ;-)) - i.e. libimager-perl and
> > >   libtext-vfile-asdata-perl.
> > Sure, but the good thing to do is invite those people in the team.
> > :-)
> 
> Right ;-)
> 
> 
> Looking at my original (and checking back with our svn repo) that
> leaves us with (sorted by maintainer):
>  
> > libuser-simple-perl
> > Maintainer: Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@debian.org>
> > 
> > libnet-lite-ftp-perl
> > Maintainer: Alexis Sukrieh <sukria@debian.org>
> > Uploaders: Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
> > 
> > libnet-amazon-s3-perl
> > Maintainer: Alexis Sukrieh <sukria@debian.org>
> > Uploaders: Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
> > (not in the archive)
> > 
> > libxml-libxml-xpathcontext-perl
> > Maintainer: Alexis Sukrieh <sukria@debian.org>
> > (not in the archive)
> > 
> > liblogger-syslog-perl
> > Maintainer: Alexis Sukrieh <sukria@debian.org>
> > Uploaders: Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
> > 
> > libidna-punycode-perl
> > Maintainer: Kjetil Kjernsmo (Work key) <kjetilk@opera.com>
> > (not in the archive)
> > 
> > libwordnet-querydata-perl
> > Maintainer: Kjetil Kjernsmo (Work key) <kjetilk@opera.com>
> > (not in the archive)
> 
> Gunnar, Alexis, Kjetil - could you please comment on the idea of
> having the Maintainer field set to the DPG for these packages (and
> maybe on the status of the not uploaded package while we're at it
> ;-))
> 
> > libimager-perl
> > Maintainer: Jay Bonci <jaybonci@debian.org>
> 
> If I understand #421582 correctly Jay has (1) uploaded a new version
> and (2) is "willing to give this package up or co-maint it if
> necessary." At the moment there is no Uploader listed; Jay, may I
> suggest that your package and you join our Group? (No problem if you
> don't like the idea; in that case I'd move the package away in the
> repo.)
>  
> > libtext-vfile-asdata-perl
> > Maintainer: Kjetil Kjernsmo <kjetil@kjernsmo.net>
> > (archive: Maintainer: Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org>)
> 
> I still have no idea what this package is doing in our repository;
> looking at the svn log (injected by Kjetil on 2006-12-01) and the
> package's ITP/changelog (ITP'd by Neil on 2007-01-04, uploaded on
> 2007-01-09) it seems that Kjetil started to package it but Neil
> correctly ITP'd it, uploaded it and now maintains it. - Kjetil, Neil,
> is this correct?
> If so I'll move it to attic/ - unless Neil joins our friendly group
> of course ;-)
> 
> Cheers,
> gregor
>  

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