Arnaud Vandyck wrote: >> *Also because it would make the danger of bit-rot visible. > > English problem here, I don't understand this sentence :'(
I mean that there will be a visible difference between these cases: (a) A package that has gone a long time without activity because it works well, and (b) A package that has gone a long time without activity because the Uploaders moved on to other work, although the package needs maintenance. > Maybe we can make a survey: DD that do want to be responsible for > pkg-java packages, please, upload them with you in the maintainer > field and pkg-java in the uploader field. Note that the proposal is also to have all the other uploaders in the Uploader field, not only pkg-java. > I think it's working. Wolfgang and others did a lot of work without > being DD and it's also because pkg-java is the maintainer. A non-DD can also be maintainer. I maintain a few packages on my own. >> Sorry, I don't think of it that way. I do not feel responsible in any way >> for packages where I'm not Uploader. > > Well. I do. Even if I don't know how to fix things. I feel responsible > for the quality of Debian in general, Well, so do I, but in a more general sense. If I am directly responsible for a package (Maintainer or Uploader) which has open bugs, then that bothers me a lot more than bugs in other packages. > Well, I thought that was the definition of a team. I feel less > responsible when the package is maintained by someone I don't know and > when I get flamed when I upload it even if he doesn't take care of the > package for a long time! I don't see why that would happen. Putting pkg-java in the Uploader field is (should be) a sign that the package is team-maintained and that the Maintainer is part of pkg-java, and accepts our standards for cooperation. >> All I want to do is to attach one actual _person_ to each package, who >> can always be counted on to be responsible. > > That's not what I call a team, but it's my conception, I don't want to > be a guru ;-) The Maintainer and Uploaders would certainly be a team, but one with a team leader. Today we have teams with no formal leader. Marcus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
