Kachina Technologies as a maintainer
On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Ward Deng wrote:
wdeng>We really intend take over some numerical/scientific
wdeng>applications. However, none of us here are official Debian
wdeng>developers. We are asking question if a company can be a
wdeng>developer and nobody seems to know the answer.
We have had long policy discussions over whether a group of two
can be a maintainer. I don't see that it is much different with a company.
There are several potential problems. Debian needs an email
address attached to a human who can be held responsible for a package.
Debian needs a unique PGP key associated with a maintainer to verify
uploads and correspondence (sharing a key presents security problems).
There may be ways around these problems. But it may add management
overhead to an already oversized organization.
That said, I think an experimental organization-maintainer could
be set up. I would suggest having one person at KT holding the keys and
doing uploads and managing correspondence, and acting as an interface btwn
Debian and KT. Debian needs (at least with its current infrastructure) to
see KT as a person.
Debian lacks funds and resources. I think that if a company uses
its resources to maintain free software for Debian, it is fair that the
company name be listed as the official maintainer.
John
John Lapeyre <lapeyre@physics.arizona.edu>
Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre
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