Re: Evolving away from source package realms
On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 10:19:28PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Tobias Frost <tobi@debian.org> writes:
> > On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 04:09:54PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> >> Is there some way right now for me to say "any Debian contributor with
> >> upload rights should feel free to merge changes and upload this package
> >> without needing to consult me at all, and I will subscribe to the
> >> packages feed for the package and say something if something happens
> >> that I don't like" with a packaging repository on Salsa? And if not,
> >> would that be a good way to start?
>
> > In my understanding this is exactly the purpose of the Debian group on salsa.
> > As [1] says:
> > Direct commits to repositories in the Debian group by any Debian
> > developer are implicitly welcome. No pre-commit coordination
> > (e.g. merge-request or mail) is expected.
>
> > [1] https://wiki.debian.org/Salsa/Doc#Collaborative_Maintenance:_.22Debian.22_group
>
> What I'm missing, and maybe this is just me not understanding, is the
> uploads part. Does that also imply that anyone can just upload? (And
> what about the minor protocol parts of that, such as what to put into
> Maintainer and Uploaders?)
>
> But I was wondering if this was what the Salsa Debian group was supposed
> to be and we just haven't really used it very much (possibly because there
> aren't that many volunteers to upload random packages?).
(Of course I can only speak for myself,) but I always understood it that the
Debian group was designed for maintaining packaged together, and in my
interpretation of "maintaining" this includes uploading.
The salsa announcement [2] also more broadly talks about "allowing … to work
on your package"; this wording also implies for me that uploads are welcome…
In this spirit, I did several "Team uploads" already for projects in the
Debian group; nobody complained about that towards me so far…
(Maybe this would be a good opportunity to evaluate the project's oppinion
on this, and then document that in more clear words on the wiki?)
[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2017/12/msg00003.html
Cheers,
--
tobi
>
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> Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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