I think we all have a very limited free time to work on Debian. At least it is my situation.
Newcomers are looking for reviewers/uploaders, trying to reach a relatively large audience in d/science, sometimes for a very long time without success. How will it work in a smaller team? Doing some large transitions (vtk, boost, etc.) I am always very glad seeing package maintained in a d/science because it is very easy to make a tiny uploads, reaching the result very fast without filing bugs, NMUs etc. All these official bureaucratic procedures take a lot of time and at the end slow down the process. Why do we want to get a one-more team with own policy, necessity to be a member of it doing such uploads etc. It makes things harder! I have unsubscribed myself from most of the mailing lists (even from debian-devel, sorry), leaving only important ones for me to save some more time for QA-work, reviewing/sponsoring/uploading packages, fixing bugs, setting CI-pipelines for salsa-repos etc. Why do we want to spread an energy/time writing new policy, moving packages etc? My strong opinion is that new barriers (blends/teams/salsa-groups whatever) will unlikely improve the total quality and amount of Debian packages. For me it just means that I will probably need to file more NMUs, asking other people for reviews etc... It is a pain and a waste of time. Sorry. I will probably need to request membership in other teams due to some QA or release-transition work, but.... Regards Anton
