On 05/07/10 20:25, Russ Allbery wrote: >>> >> and not all Debian Maintainers are maintainers >> > That last one is new to me. What's the point of becoming a Debian >> > Maintainer if not to maintain one or more packages in Debian? > So that they can upload a Debian package. They may have no intention to > become the maintainer. I see a real layer of additional distinction from > people who upload packages to people who are maintainers. The latter is a > role with a set of responsibilities that people pick up consciously and > that comes with a committment. Many Debian Maintainers do take on that > role, but it's not a necessary component to becoming a Debian Maintainer > or exercising the one additional capability that a DM has. Hmm, I don't follow. To be a DM, you need to have someone advocate you on the grounds of your work as a package maintainer. It seems to me that you don't consider people who are only listed as Uploaders as package maintainers. I suspect a fair bunch of DMs will not appear on any package as maintainer, but only as Uploaders of packages maintained within a team. I myself never had a package with DMUA set for which I was the Maintainer: of the package. -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler
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