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Re: Choice of a Maintainer address for the team [EVERYONE PLEASE REPLY]



Hi Sébastien,

On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 11:03:36AM +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 10:39:31AM +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> > Ok, so given the positive answer of the alioth-lists.debian.net admins, we now
> > have three options for the Maintainer field:
> > 
> > 1) team+r-pkg-team@tracker.debian.org
> >    Cons: humain emails go to /dev/null (considered as a bug, see #891504), no archive
> > 
> > 2) debian-r@lists.debian.org
> >    Cons: no fine-tuning of package subscribtions, automated messages will be mixed with
> >    packagers' discussions
> > 
> > 3) a new list at alioth-lists.debian.net
> >    Cons: no fine-tuning of package subscribtions, temporary (a few years)
> 
> So far the votes are:
> 
> D. Aïssi:    1 > 3 > 2
> A. Tille:    3 > 1 > 2
> C. Plessy:   3 > 2 > 1
> S. Villemot: 1 > 3 > 2
> 
> So unless someone else enters the vote, we have a tie between 1 and 3.

I admit I was hoping for more contributions to this team (not only
regarding raising a voice here) ...
 
> As a compromise, I could be open to the idea of implementing 3, but with the
> additional rule that subscribing to the alioth mailing list is not mandatory
> for team members, and that subscribing through the tracker is also considered as
> a valid option.

I think we have no real means to force any "mandatory" rule ony anybody, its
Debian, right. ;-)
 
> In practice, this would leave the responsibility of reading humain mails to the
> list on the shoulders of a those subscribed to it (i.e. probably Andreas and
> Charles).

As long as it is just reading, not answering. :-P

In short: I would be fine with this compromise since I could keep my
currentl workflow.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

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http://fam-tille.de


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