2013/4/9 Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński <[email protected]> > > 2013/4/8 Yann Rouillard <[email protected]>: > > I think there are two topics here: > > 1. how to handle NMU, > > 2. how to handle orphaned packages. > > > > If you have a lot of bugs assigned to you, it's probably because the > > maintainers are not active anymore and didn't upload new packages. In fact, > > the packages are rather orphaned. > > > > For 2., I would propose to create a dedicated fake maintainer. The emails > > address of this fake maintainer would be a mailing-list, all interested > > maintainers in helping to keep orphaned package up to date would be > > subscribed to this list. > > > > For 1., it might be better to register the official maintainer somewhere > > (the easiest is in the Makefile). If someone else uploads a package it could > > just add an "UPLOADER" field in the pkginfo file but would not change the > > official maintainer of the package. > > Our current field has exactly this meaning, it's whomever last > uploaded the package.
This has not been the case from the beginning, has it ? That is not entirely clear from the outside I think: the maintainers pages still mentions "packages maintained by" and not "packages last uploaded by": http://www.opencsw.org/maintainers/yann/ And the email contact in the pkginfo file is the last uploader's one and not the maintainer's one. > > There's also 2 things we need to distinguish: > > - how we can change our infrastructure to be better > - what we can do right now > > I'm more interested in what we can do now, without changing our > infrastructure. For now we have just one field; adjusting this field > causes packages to look as if they changed ownership, although the > field really only means the last uploader. So what do we do with this > field for now? Without changing anything, I think this field should be used for the official maintainer. When we do a NMU we make sure this field doesn't change. Using a fake maintainer without changing anything in the current infrastructure has to drawbacks I think: - from the outside, it will look like the package doesn't have a maintainer anymore, - the real maintainer will not receive anymore bugs and reminders about his package. Of course we should contact the maintainer before doing this kind of upload. Yann
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