Re: Barriers between packages and other people

[Santiago Ruano Rincón]

Em 20 de dezembro de 2024 23:11:55 GMT-03:00, Sean Whitton 
<spwhit...@spwhitton.name> escreveu:
>Hello,
>
>On Thu 12 Dec 2024 at 10:43am +01, Gioele Barabucci wrote:
>
>> an alternative that I was thinking of, is making this "everybody is onboard"
>> policy more explicit by having a special email to use for the Maintainer
>> field. For example:
>>
>>     Maintainer: Debian community <debian-commun...@lists.debian.org>
>>
>> The stewards of the package could be listed as Uploaders, as it currently
>> happens with team-maintained packages.
>
>We don't need new vocabulary and a new mailing list for this.
>Let's use:
>
>    Maintainer: Debian developers <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>
>
>    Maintainer: Debian contributors <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>
>
>(lowercase 'd' deliberate)
>
>We could replace the LowNMU wiki list with this, right now.
>
>It's the same as "Debian QA team" but it signals active maintainance by
>at least one of the named uploaders.
>
>We could do this independently of any other ideas about
>dont_touch_my_package.  Incremental steps.
>
>Who's with me?
>

<3

I like this idea, and will apply it for e.g. grep and bzip2.

Thanks!