List of the names and email addresses of co-maintainers of the package, if any.
If the package has other maintainers beside the one named in the
Maintainer field, their names and email addresses
should be listed here. The format is the same as that of the Maintainer tag,
and multiple entries should be comma separated. Currently, this field is
restricted to a single line of data. This is an optional field.
So,
Paul van Tilburg gave me advice when I made the very first versions of
this package, and he reviewed it extensively and found many packaging
problems and helped me fix them. Therefore, I consider him a
co-maintainer. Given the description above, it seems entirely appropriate
to list him in the Uploaders: field. Or have I misunderstood the paragraph above somehow or the idea
of package maintanence? I thought it involved the finding and fixing
of packaging problems and by that criteria certainly Paul has contributed in the past enough to be worth mentioning I should think. If not then I think we need to clarify the language in the DPM to express why not because I still cannot see it and I suspect others will be confused by this as well.
Cheers,
Rudi
On Tue, 22 May 2007, Rudi Cilibrasi, Ph.D. wrote:
>> Uploaders: Paul van Tilburg <paulvt@debian.org> . Is this
>> correct?
>
> No, this was just my hope when I first made the package some
> time ago. But, Paul has no interest or use for the package.
> Since then, Paul has gotten overworked and also
> had to finish his thesis; I misunderstood the purpose of the
> library when I wrote that first description and think it would be
> better if a real user of the library wrote a description. Probably
> somebody involved in the nuclear field I guess. I can
> help with this stuff if the next maintainer wants me to.
So this seems to be a missunderstanding of the Uploaders field.
In general it is not necessary that a sponsor is mentioned in the
debian/control file. He just signs and uploads the package.
People mentioned in the Uploaders field are usually those who
do some group maintenance i.e. work actively on package
development. If I'm sponsoring packages I sometimes ask
the maintainer for adding myself to the uploaders field because
this ensures that I will find the package listed in
http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=tille@debian.org
which enables me to have a quick overview about thoses packages
I'm interested in - but this is more than just a simple sponsored
upload.
> I am happy to do this if I am really the best person to, but I
> have never worked with a X-Ray data file yet successfully.
> I think Teemu might know better how to describe it.
As I just sponsored other packages for Teemu I think this
would be a reasonable cooperation. Just come back to me if
nobody else will step up as sponsor. (I'm just sponsoring
a certain amount of packages and would like to see this
as a "backup if finding an other sponsor would fail".)
Kind regards
Andreas.
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