On Sat, Dec 21, 2024 at 10:11:55AM +0800, Sean Whitton wrote: > 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?
We DO already have the debian namespace on salsa, everything in this namespace is "team maintained by everyone.", so putting the package there already declares that. (Of course, this is orthogonal to a discussion where e.g bug reports for the debian-namespace packages should be mailed too.) -- tobi
