Working as a team, let's take care of all problems
Hello everybody,
I know that most teams in Debian are understaffed but I have the feeling
that we are not doing very well with our packages. There are a few
maintainers who are taking good care of their own packages but we are not
enough persons caring about the long tail of packages that have no
dedicated active maintainer.
Yet we are getting better tools to track all our packages, notably
with the new tracker.debian.org team overview:
https://tracker.debian.org/teams/pkg-security
We also have an IRC channel that will soon receive notifications of bugs
and uploads (it already has notifications of commits). Join
#debian-pkg-security on OFTC.
So please step in. Here are a few thing to start with:
1/ Click on the "join" button on https://tracker.debian.org/teams/pkg-security/
as too few team members are currently receiving bug mails and other
autoremoval notifications, etc.
2/ Decide to upload one or two packages every day from those that have
"action needed" in their VCS column in this table:
https://tracker.debian.org/teams/pkg-security/+table/general
Those need an upload to fix their Maintainer/Vcs fields at least and would
certainly benefit from some other cleanup/review.
Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer
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