Re: Suggesting change in DPT policy

[Thomas Goirand <thomas@goirand.fr>]

On 2/28/24 09:21, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Louis-Philippe (just quoting below in case you might have missed it) is
> repeating the importance that anyone who thinks my suggestion (MR[1]) is
> a bad idea make themselves heard.  I'm hereby adding those maintainers
> who have more than 5 packages that are affected and did not yet raised
> their opinion in To: field.
>
> udd=> SELECT * FROM (select maintainer, count(*) from sources where uploaders like '%team+python@tracker.debian.org%' and release = 'sid' group by maintainer order by maintainer) tmp WHERE count > 5;
>                                 maintainer                                | count
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------
>   Debian PaN Maintainers <debian-pan-maintainers@alioth-lists.debian.net> |     7
>   Jeroen Ploemen <jcfp@debian.org>                                        |    16
>   Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org>                                     |    23
>   Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org>                                          |    82
>   Scott Kitterman <scott@kitterman.com>                                   |     7
>   Vincent Bernat <bernat@debian.org>                                      |    15
> (6 rows)

Note that it's been the case at least for Vincent, in at least a few 
instances, that the tooling (py2dsp you wrote?) made him wrongly put the 
team as uploader. There's porbably other cases as well.

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)