Bug#1041464: debian-policy: make Uploaders field optional for team-maintained packages

[Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>]

On Wed, 19 Jul 2023 at 10:26, Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> wrote:
>
> control: forcemerge 798476 1041464
>
> Hello,
>
> On Wed 19 Jul 2023 at 10:18am +01, Luca Boccassi wrote:
>
> > Assigning ownership to individuals deters group and team maintenance,
> > as other team members will feel like they are overstepping when working
> > on a package for which other people are marked as Uploaders.
> >
> > In order to remove all barriers to team contributions and maintenance,
> > make the 'Uploaders' field optional instead of mandatory when the
> > 'Maintainer' is a team alias. This allows packages where we do not want
> > to assign ownership to any individual, but leave them be purely team
> > maintained, to do so.
>
> I wanted to do this some years ago, but the MIA team objected.  So you'd
> need to speak to them first.

Thanks, I skimmed through that long discussion and it seems to me it
went nowhere. I don't think there's any benefit in attempting to just
restart it. What about escalating to the CTTE and ask them to make a
decision? That way the matter can be closed one way or the other.

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi