Hi Anton, My first impression is the same -- that may increase fragmentation. But in fact, as long as the main contributors on these packages are happy, why should we stop them :-)
Debian contributors are already scarce. If a new team help a group of maintainers retain their enthusiasm, it will be good. I think I have done something similar -- I splitted the deep learning stuff from the science team umbrella into a dedicated team. In this way people who have a specific interest will have a better place to collaborate. Besides, deep learning team inherited the science team policy, and ML-Policy handles some new problems. Overall a new team should be good. As long as the maintainer permission is given to every contributor. Or, it is suggested to directly assign the maintainer access to the whole science team. On Sat, 2021-10-30 at 01:55 +0200, Anton Gladky wrote: > Hi Doug, > > well, I think that it just increases a fragmentation. But it is up to > you. > > Best regards > > Anton > > Am Fr., 29. Okt. 2021 um 22:04 Uhr schrieb Torrance, Douglas > <[email protected]>: > > > > During the Debian Science BoF at this year's DebConf, there was > > some > > discussion of creating a team devoted to packaging mathematical > > software. > > > > This seemed like a pretty good idea, so I figured that I'd go ahead > > and > > start working on getting it set up. I've already created a Salsa > > group [1] > > and a team on the Debian Package Tracker [2]. If you're interested > > in > > joining, then you should be able to sign up at these links. > > > > I figured next would be applying for a mailing list, putting > > together a team policy, etc. Any thoughts? > > > > Doug > > > > [1] https://salsa.debian.org/math-team > > [2] https://tracker.debian.org/teams/math/ >
