Hello, I would like that all future package maintainers sign the following pledge during their acceptance process. It tries to define a minimal and common set of expectations among all package maintainers. This draft has been reviewed by several DD in the trip back from Debconf and I think it's quite good already. Once it's good enough, I'd welcome DAM/FD/DM-team to ensure that each person that is granted upload rights has signed this text.
---- As a package maintainer, I will do my best to help the Debian project release a stable version of our operating system. In particular, I will work together with the release team and I will keep all packages associated to my name free of release critical bugs. To this effect, if I'm not registered as being busy or in vacation, I will start working on my release critical bugs as soon as possible (in less than 1 week in common cases). If I can't deal with them in a timely fashion, I will state it clearly in the associated bug reports, tag them help and invite other contributors either to provide a patch or to do a non-maintainer upload. If I do not manage to handle release critical bugs in the above described way, or if I almost never deal with any of my RC bugs by myself, I will: • not refuse help and even propose co-maintainance to good contributors • recognize my failure and actively try to find a new maintainer and/or co-maintainers • not complain if the quality assurance team decides to orphan the package I recognize that my work is not limited to unstable. I will also work with the stable release team and the security team to provide updated packages for the stable and/or testing distribution when some issues deserve it. I am aware of the limits of my skills and my available time and I will avoid packaging software that I would not be able to maintain properly. ---- Comments welcome. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
