On Sat, Dec 21, 2024 at 02:09:28PM +0100, Gioele Barabucci wrote: > On 21/12/24 10:15, Pirate Praveen wrote: > > We could use collab maint list, which was specifically created for this > > https://wiki.debian.org/CollaborativeMaintenance > > Good idea. > > To sum up all suggestions until now: > > Some packages will be maintained in a default-open way and outside a > specific team, with an ethos similar to that of > https://wiki.debian.org/LowThresholdNmu (= feel free to fix bugs and > imperfections, but talk with the others before big changes). > > Technical aspects: > > * Maintainer: Debian contributors <collab-maint-de...@lists.debian.org> [1] > * Uploaders: the DD and DMs that have more experience with this package (but > not "responsible")
The "not responsible" part... IMHO The people in Uploaders should feel responsible for the package, otherwise noone will be feeling reponsible, and then the package is just like an orphaned package pretendig to be maintained. (This is some life experience out of MIA work.) > * The Git repo will live under https://salsa.debian.org/debian/ > * Changelog entries will start with "Team upload" > > The packaging layout and workflow are open questions. And perhaps they are > best left open for the foreseeable future. For the moment, let the first > packager decide; changes can be done later after discussion with others who > participate. > > What is needed to make this a reality: > > * Some sort of consensus (but not much, given that this is a fully voluntary > effort). > * A new mailing list [1]. > * Maybe lintian must be somehow adapted? > * Maybe tracker.d.o and DDPO should explicitly know about this? > > [1] The collab-maint-de...@alioth-lists.debian.net referred by > https://wiki.debian.org/CollaborativeMaintenance no longer exists (or it > never existed), so a new one is needed to avoid flooding d-devel@. > > Regards, > > -- > Gioele Barabucci >
