On Fri, Feb 20, 2026 at 08:50:55AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Thu, Feb 19, 2026 at 07:31:44AM +0100, Tobias Frost a écrit : > > > > the information in the Uploaders field is less about determining activity > > and > > more about enabling action once inactivity has been established. > > > > If team membership is not clearly documented, we cannot easily determine > > which team should be contacted when someone goes missing. > > Le Thu, Feb 19, 2026 at 10:41:51PM +0100, Tobias Frost a écrit : > > > > Do you have some concrete query in mind that you could share with me, which > > would tell (quickly and with accuracy) that someone stopped working on a > > package and we need to tell someone, e.g a team? > > Hi Tobias, > > this is the whole point of making the Uploader field optional. When absent, > it > means that every team member is equally in chage for the package, and that > when > one member of the team leaves or becomes inactive, nobody changes for that > package.
So if a team-maintained package without an Uploader field is not effectively maintained, it can be salvaged/orphaned/hijacked by any DD exactly as if it was not team-maintained ? Cheers, -- Bill. <[email protected]> Imagine a large red swirl here.
