On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 02:06:56PM +0200, Carl Fürstenberg wrote: > On 9/6/07, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is certainly my preference. It's much clearer if there is *one* > > > person named as the responsible party for the packages.
> > > It's a fact of human psychology that if a collective group is named as > > > the responsible party, then nobody in that group feels particularly > > > responsible. This is one reason why groups nominate a leader: it gives > > > that person a stake in seeing the group's efforts succeed. > > That's right, on the other hand I think philoshophy here at DPMT is > > that if the maintainer is set to DPMT, anyone can make any change and > > upload. If I am set as the maintainer, I should approve all the > > changes - but that can be slow (I can be out of town, I can be busy, > > etc.). > > So I myself chose to be among Uploaders and set Maintainer to DPMT, > > because this more enforces team work and I like team work. > I had a discussion on #debian-devel about this, and "they" thought it > was pretty stupid to have DPMT as uploader, as it would make every > package NMU. No, what was said was that it was meaningless to list a mailing list in the Uploaders field because a mailing list can never do an upload and therefore it misses the /point/ of the Uploaders field. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
