On Thu, Feb 5, 2026, at 7:21 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 05, 2026 at 06:22:13PM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote: >>Do you (or anyone else) update the Uploaders field? In what way? > > I feel like I probably should in some way, but at the moment I basically > don't unless I particularly feel inclined to take over primary > maintenance of that particular package.
The effective practice in the Rust team also matches this. Uploaders usually contains whoever first packaged a particular crate, and potentially people who expressed a particular interest in it after, if they bothered (enough) to add themselves. To pick a random example - rust-cargo's last non-team upload by someobdy in Uploaders was in 2021, the 27(!) uploads after were "Team uploads" (with all but one marked as such). I guess I should add myself to Uploaders with the next one ;) for rust-libc it's very similar (26 uploads since the last non-team-upload in 2021). Many crate packages might only have a single upload by the Uploader (the first one to NEW).
