Bug#573110: developers-reference: Team uploads.
tags 573110 + pending
thanks
On Tue, 09 Mar 2010, Charles Plessy wrote:
> The formalisation of team uploads would help team members to show the priority
> they have in the packages maintained by their team, by being Uploader for some
> but not all.
I agree this is a good thing in general. I saw team uploads done with
the email of the team in the changelog entry just to avoid the lintian
warning and this is counter-productive. We really want names of people
in the changelog.
So I commited a change based on your patch:
diff --git a/pkgs.dbk b/pkgs.dbk
index f40e7f3..baec071 100644
--- a/pkgs.dbk
+++ b/pkgs.dbk
@@ -2194,6 +2194,21 @@ the new version (see <xref linkend="adopting"/>).
</section>
+<section id="nmu-team-upload">
+<title>NMUs vs team uploads</title>
+
+<para>
+Sometimes you are fixing and/or updating a package because you are member of a
+packaging team (which uses a mailing list as Maintainer or Uploader, see <xref
+linkend="collaborative-maint"/>) but you don't want to add yourself to Uploaders
+because you do not plan to contribute regularly to this specific package. If it
+conforms with your team's policy, you can perform a normal upload without
+being listed directly as Maintainer or Uploader. In that case, you should
+start your changelog entry with the following line: <code> * Team upload.</code>.
+</para>
+
+</section>
+
</section>
<section id="collaborative-maint">
@@ -2268,11 +2283,17 @@ moderation for non-subscribers).
</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
+
<para>
In any case, it is a bad idea to automatically put all team members in the
-Uploaders field. It clutters the Developer's Package Overview listing (see
+Uploaders field. It clutters the Developer's Package Overview listing (see
<xref linkend="ddpo"/> ) with packages one doesn't really care for, and creates
-a false sense of good maintenance.
+a false sense of good maintenance. For the same reason, team members do
+not need to add themselves to the Uploaders field just because they are
+uploading the package once, they can do a “Team upload” (see <xref
+linkend="nmu-team-upload"/>). Conversely, it it a bad idea to keep a
+package with only the mailing list address as a Maintainer and no
+Uploaders.
</para>
</section>
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Raphaël Hertzog
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