Paul Wise <[email protected]> writes: > On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 12:54 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> I'm not sure what the drawback is to adding yourself to Uploaders. >> Could you elaborate? > Well, it means that in various places I'll be marked as maintaining the > package rather than having done a once-off upload to bring the packaging > up to date with policy/debhelper/etc or fix a GCC FTBFS or something. > These are similar to NMUs but not NMUs since I'm part of the team. > Adding myself to Uploaders creates an impression I'll do something on > the package in the future, which isn't necessarily true. I guess I could > immediately remove myself from Uploaders in SVN after the upload. Hm. So it's sort of a team NMU -- you're not planning on taking ongoing responsibility for the package except as just another member of the team. Yeah, a team upload is a good way of putting it. You're uploading it as a member of the maintainer team, not as an individual directly responsible for the package. ftpmaster has asked us to warn about packages that don't have any human listed maintainers, so I know that they (and others) would be unhappy if everyone who uploaded the package took this approach. But I can see the need for an NMU-style or QA-style maintenance upload for a team-maintained package without wanting to take ongoing responsibility for it. Maybe run this by debian-devel? -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
