Hi, On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 05:15:02PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 04:07:47PM +0100, Mehdi Dogguy wrote:
> The current situation is, at best, unorganized: > - some packages have specific maintainers > - some other (the vast majority) have d-o-m as maintainer, with > sub-cases for how Uploaders is managed > - some have a list which is the same since years, not representing > the reality of the package contributors > - some have an arbitrary list of people which used to be defined in > ocaml.mk to represent a situation of contributors of years ago > - some have people adding themselves the first time they touch a > package, with no "garbage collection" whatsoever I do not see this really as a problem. Different packages have different uploaders, and different ways how new uploaders are admitted. Some may not be team maintained at all. > I don't like this, well, mess. > Given that packages are team maintained I think it makes sense to > require some uniformity. > > My proposal is to do as the Gnome people do, namely: you consider the > current debian/changelog, you took the list of last n different > contributors listed in it, and you generate Uploaders from it. I hope that this is only meant for packages that are team maintained? If an owner of a package does not want to have it team maintained then we should not try to take it away from him, of course. -Ralf. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
