On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 09:49:34PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > debootstrap's d/control lists the Maintainer as the "Debian Install > System Team" - that is great. There are also 3 Uploaders listed: Colin > Watson, Steve McIntyre and Hideki Yamane. > > The last contribution and upload by Colin were in 2021 and 2015, > respectively, by Steve was it was 2016 and 2017, and Hideki and 2021 > and 2020. Again, not a critique, just data!
I can't speak for others, but I don't object to being removed from Uploaders here. > So, I want to propose to move the package to exclusively team > maintained, drop the Uploaders field, leave only the Maintainer field > with the current team as-is, and ask anybody who wants to help maintain > it to join the installer-team on Salsa and just send changes as MRs, > help review/merge them, and do normal uploads, without marking them as > NMU nor feeling the need to treat them as NMUs - no need to contact > uploaders to ask permissions, delayed uploads, or anything like that. > > Again, I really can't stress this enough - dropping the Uploaders is > not because I think the uploaders have done anything wrong, or as > punishment, or anything else, but simply and solely to remove all > barriers stopping or hindering anybody else from doing team > maintenance. FWIW, while I don't object to this change for my own part, I also don't have the same understanding as you of what Uploaders means in a team-maintained package. To my mind, Uploaders is just a hint as to which team members are likely to have the most useful context about a package. It makes sense to keep that list up to date, for sure, but a package is no less team-maintained just because it happens to have an Uploaders field. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]