On 22/12/24 06:56, Andreas Metzler wrote:
On 2024-12-22 Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> wrote:
On Sat 21 Dec 2024 at 10:23pm +01, Gioele Barabucci wrote:
We have a mechanism for when you feel responsible: "Maintainer: $me".
What is being discussed here is a mechanism for shared, collective,
diffused responsibility: "If this package is in bad shape, the whole
Debian project should be held responsible. Either it gets fixed by
someone or it gets RM'd by someone."
Hmm, what you describe seems more like an orphaned package.
+1 on that. The proposed scheme is exactly how "Maintainer: Debian QA
Group" works.
Not exactly.
https://lintian.debian.org/tags/uploaders-in-orphan.html
> uploaders-in-orphan
>
> Packages with their maintainer set to packa...@qa.debian.org,
> i.e. orphaned packages, should not have uploaders.
> Adopt the package properly if you want to resume its maintenance.
We need different levels of responsibility:
* Nobody cares ⇒ orphan package
* I care a bit, but I don't have time to handle all the responsibilities
that a maintainership entail, but try to contact me anyway, I may reply
⇒ MISSING LEVEL discussed here
* I care, as a part of a group ⇒ Team uploads
* I care, and I'm willing to handle the full maintainership: Maintaner:
m...@debian.org.
Regards,
--
Gioele Barabucci
