On 04/02/16 18:57, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > I’m also in support of it. > > In case nobody else chimes in with an objection, I’ll commit it this > weekend.
Sorry I am this late to the discussion, you probably have commited the new version by now.. Still I would like to voice my opinion for future iterations of the policy. I am sad to have missed this (I just kept saving the thread for when 'I had time' to properly read it), as I think this is an issue I always cared about, and hoped that it would move in a different direction from what the discussion went to. I started my life in Debian in the Perl group, and so it shaped my views pretty strongly. I always felt that was a very welcoming place, for newbies and old-timers, where work was always appreciated, and you did not feel alienated if you could not devote so much time sometimes (and I finally stopped working there at some point). It was very low-stress, and the group succeeds in maintaining an obscene number of packages with not so many active members. With many members staying for years, and old members are still friends. I don't remember any fight, just many calm technical discussions. A big part of all this "utopia" I am painting here - I believe - is that nobody "owned" a package. You only put your name in Uploaders before uploading, but you did not need to ask permission from anybody, because the owner was the group as a whole. So, instead of asking for permissions to fix bugs, you only discussed with the group bigger matters, like mass-commits, changes in tooling, etc. If you go away, most of the time nobody actually needs you to continue working. And I feel very relieved that I don't need to be committed for life to all the packages I have ever uploaded there. To address one concern about a more open policy; to avoid clashes, you never assume that nobody will touch the package unless you ask somehow. In that case, you would just leave a note in the changelog, asking other not to upload, and/or asking for help. For example, in this[1] commit. So, again, sorry for being this late to the conversation, but I hope we can discuss this approach for a next version. Tincho. [1]: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libmemcached-libmemcached-perl.git/commit/?id=e780b94 -- Martín Ferrari (Tincho) _______________________________________________ Pkg-go-maintainers mailing list Pkg-go-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-go-maintainers
