On 09/29/2015 04:02 PM, Tristan Seligmann wrote:
> but I'm not sure that having someone
> blindly upload my packages if they haven't worked on them before is a
> good idea.
If this is what you think of my upload, I don't agree with the above
wording at least.
I don't specifically know anything about networkx, and I didn't take the time to look at it, so I wasn't directing this at you personally except insofar as the events that spawned this thread made me think about situations like this. I think I do owe you an apology as my original mail was worded carelessly.
On 09/29/2015 04:02 PM, Tristan Seligmann wrote:
> I feel like I should go through all of my packages and remove the team
> from Maintainer for all of them
If you don't want anyone from the team to upload "your" packages (btw,
they are not yours, you are sharing them with other DDs and all of our
user bases), then by all means, remove the team from any fields.
They're mine in the sense that I am taking responsibility for them, while others are not. I'm the one reading the bug repoorts, looking at the package on my
qa.debian.org dashboard, etc. I'm certainly not opposed (in general) to anyone wants to share that responsibility, but then surely the way to do this is to add themselves to Uploaders? If they're not interested in doing that, then I think it's probably best if I (or another co-maintainer, if there is one!) am at least glancing over their changes before they're uploaded.
In other words, I'm not trying to say "MINE! ALL MINE! HANDS OFF!", and in fact I don't mind anyone *committing* things to any of my packages: the worst case scenario there is that I see the changes, find some horrible problem, revert them, and let you know why. I don't think that's a terrible state of affairs at all for a worst case, and most of the time the scenario will be that I see the changes, don't find any horrible problems, and am very happy that someone else did some work so that I didn't have to do it! But I am uncomfortable taking responsibility for a package version that I didn't even have a chance to look at before it was uploaded.
On the other hand, I don't want a lack of time/effort to hold up others who can put in the time/effort, that is why I try to make a point out of responding quickly in cases like this; I know how frustrating it can be to have a simple patch blocked for weeks by an unresponsive maintainer, and I definitely don't want my "please don't upload without pinging me" ideas to lead to situations like that. In other words, if I don't have the time to respond quickly, then I'm probably disqualifying myself as a maintainer anyway, so it only makes sense to allow others to take over in my "absence", even if only temporarily.