Re: DEP-2: Debian Package Maintenance Hub
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > I think that the source package, and its VCS, are the
> > most appropriate canonical place for such information. Now that we
> > have “team uploads”, there is less needed to be listed in the Uploaders
> > field for occasional help, so the best I think is to use this field
> > to record who is responsible, and the Maintainer field to record where
> > the information is sent. The Hub you propose will facilitate this a lot.
>
> Yes.
I just wanted to clarify one thing. While I agree that the field will more
and more mean that, I don't believe that we ought to extract it from the
VCS.
The infrastructure shall keep its own list of maintainers associated to a
package. But we might have helper tools to let maintainers quickly
subscribe to packages where they are listed in the Uploaders.
Cheers,
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