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Re: Maintainer vs. Uploaders

From	Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.maint.python
Subject	Re: Maintainer vs. Uploaders
Date	2015-09-30 11:30 +0200
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On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org> wrote:
> [Barry Warsaw, 2015-09-29]
>> How should the change be acknowledged by the
>> maintainer?  Should I Cc the mailing list when I contact the maintainer?  Is
>
> do we really need a written policy how to contact fellow co-maintainer?
> Ping on IRC, send an email, send a message via xmpp or phone, ... use
> whatever you usually use to contact any other Debian maintainer.
>
> An example message:
> "I just commited some changes in foo related to bar. Please take a look,
> I plan to upload it to unstable in a day or two. Let me know if I should
> wait a bit longer or if you're not OK with these changes. Thanks"
>
> I think such message to all Uploaders who clearly know more about given
> package than I do is a good practice even if team is listed in
> Maintainer field. I don't think sending such message after fixing a typo
> is needed, but it's definitely a must when someone replaces dh with
> cdbs or vice versa.
>
>> it okay to commit to vcs but not upload?  How long do you wait for feedback
>> before you can do the upload?
>
> yes, it's always OK to commit changes (which can be reverted). It's not OK
> to force someone else to maintain these changes by uploading it.
>
>> Should we have some automated tools to help out here?  I'm not sure where to
>
> no, we already have -commits mailing list which nobody reads. Yet
> another reason why team should be in Uploaders and not in Maintainer
> field.
>
>> Do all team members understand the implications when they set the two fields?
>> Some maintainers may not really care and may have been less conscientious
>> about setting the fields.
>
> Maintainer vs Uploaders rules needs to be moved to policy. I will
> propose a patch to the policy soon (I'd prefer a native speaker to do
> it, though)
>
>> The wiki says that the general rule of thumb is to set the team as Maintainer,
>> to which I agree.
>
> I don't (due to "package and forget" issue)

+1 on everything you wrote

-- 
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/
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  Re: python-networkx_1.10-1_amd64.changes ACCEPTED into experimental Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org> - 2015-09-29 13:50 +0200
  Re: python-networkx_1.10-1_amd64.changes ACCEPTED into experimental Julien Cristau <julien.cristau@logilab.fr> - 2015-09-29 14:00 +0200
    Re: python-networkx_1.10-1_amd64.changes ACCEPTED into experimental Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org> - 2015-09-29 14:20 +0200
      Re: python-networkx_1.10-1_amd64.changes ACCEPTED into experimental Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> - 2015-09-30 10:20 +0200
        Re: python-networkx_1.10-1_amd64.changes ACCEPTED into experimental Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org> - 2015-09-30 10:50 +0200
    Re: python-networkx_1.10-1_amd64.changes ACCEPTED into experimental Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2015-09-29 14:30 +0200
  Re: python-networkx_1.10-1_amd64.changes ACCEPTED into experimental Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> - 2015-09-29 15:50 +0200
    Re: python-networkx_1.10-1_amd64.changes ACCEPTED into experimental Tristan Seligmann <mithrandi@mithrandi.net> - 2015-09-29 16:30 +0200
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      Re: Maintainer vs. Uploaders Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> - 2015-09-29 20:40 +0200
      Re: Maintainer vs. Uploaders Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org> - 2015-09-30 11:30 +0200
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