Hi, On 16/04/18 at 08:28 +0800, Rolf Leggewie wrote: > Lucas and Atheros hijacked my package [...]
I know I'm late to the thread, but I wanted to make another point. You write "my package". I think that as Debian maintainers, we should try to avoid talking about "*my* package", but rather use e.g. "a package I maintain inside Debian", "a package I take care of", etc. That's more convoluted, but I think that it does a better job at conveying that we are not owners of the packages we maintain, but rather that we are taking care of a small part of a greater whole, governed by rules and processes that enable it to be resilient to maintainers being away/busy or leaving the project, or to technical disagreements. And actually many of the hardest things we have done over the years have been about building those balanced rules and processes, maybe more than solving technical issues. And note that it's also why we have rules or strong recommendations such as using Debian infrastructure to maintain Debian packages, and thus why you should not be using GitHub for the packages you maintain. Lucas