Mehdi Dogguy <me...@dogguy.org> writes: > On 26/12/2017 15:05, Ole Streicher wrote: >> Mattia Rizzolo <mat...@debian.org> writes: >>> On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 02:45:38PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >>>> The time before the last time I asked about tracker, the answer was >>>> that this was not yet possible due to old lintian doing automated >>>> rejects on ftpmaster. >>> >>> That's now fixed, and you can use $pack...@packages.debian.org in the >>> Maintainer field. >> >> So, one should use f.e. >> >> Maintainer: Debian Science Team <cminp...@packages.debian.org> >> >> to indicate it is a team maintained package? The field is not only used >> to give a contact address, but also to get an idea who is actually >> maintaining a package. For example, I feel much more attracted to fix a >> bug in a package that is maintained by a team where I am member of, and >> I would like to see this directly instead of needing to search whether >> it is among the 1000 Debian Science packages. > > I agree with your reasoning. I just wanted to highlight that the situation > is in fact worse with the "Team foo <b...@packages.debian.org>" schema: Our > tools do not seem ready for that yet.
I fully agree here. It makes pages like https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?email=debian-astro-maintainers%40lists.alioth.debian.org quite nonfunctional. And they are even not simple to restore with the name, since there is no really canonical name for the teams: The Debian Astro team is sometimes called (even by myself): * Debian Astro Maintainers * Debian Astronomy Maintainers * Debian Astro team * Debian Astro Team etc. What is unique is just the mail adress. However, in principle this *may* be the discussion list address. I would even prefer that, since the package maintainer address is quite prominently presented everywhere, and therefore often used by people to contact us. In the debian-astro-maintainers@alioth.d.o this has the danger to get lost between upload confirmations and bug processing mails. To change the team address to the discussion list (@lists.d.o) would however require that the automated mails (uploads, bug mails) are not longer forwarded to that address. I also don't see a need for this, since the subscription on tracker.d.o allows a much more fine-grained access here. Are there any plans (or already possibilities) to disable the processing/bug mail forwarding to the maintainer address? > A team needs a single point of contact and f...@packages.debian.org doesn't > provide that. Or we need other means to identify teams (and using a regexp > on names attached to an email address is not a solution). A team usually has a discussion list, and this is also the point of contact for a human. I would rather not like to have robots there. Best regards Ole
