On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 09:05:44AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > [...]
+1 from me, too. I had completely forgotten this paragraph in the Python policy and it doesn't make that much sense. I personally generally do send an email to anyone in the "Maintainers" field or the last uploader just as a matter of courtesy before working on something, and then wait for a day before doing anything; for all I know, they may already be working on a patch, especially if it's a very new bug. But if the model of team maintainership is made much stronger and clearer, though I would still encourage sending an email to the "main maintainer" for anything non-trivial, even if just to let them know the situation. In response to other comments, I suggest that those maintainers who do not wish other team members to help work on their packages under this new approach should just remove DPT from the Maintainer and Uploader fields, and regard any offers of help as an NMU or merge request. One tweak to Andreas's patch: > diff --git a/policy.rst b/policy.rst > index 27bf6f3..7185d6d 100644 > --- a/policy.rst > +++ b/policy.rst > @@ -48,20 +48,14 @@ Maintainership > ============== > > A package maintained within the team should have the name of the team either this should be: - A package maintained within the team should have the name of the team either + A package maintained within the team should have the name of the team > -in the ``Maintainer`` field or in the ``Uploaders`` field. > +in the ``Maintainer``. Best wishes, Julian
