On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 01:13:28PM +0100, Arif Ali wrote: > Uploaded #4 to mentors > > I've delayed the copyright updates until we've discussed this upstream, so > no changes there for the time being. > > The Maintainers field has been changed to a mailing list, so that the key > people involved would always get notified. I've seen this being done by > others, but lintian on mentors is complaining about > inconsistent maintainer; I am hoping that shouldn't be too much of an > issue. The previous notifications got unnoticed, and this would hopefully > alleviate this issue moving forward.
The maintainer/uploader field is to declare how is working on the packaging, so the mailing list would be the packaging team's mailing list and uploaders should be the persons that feel especially responsible for the package. (For details about those fields, consult the Policy 3.3, 5.6.2 and 5.6.3) For notifcations, anyone can subscribe to the Package at tracker.d.o. > Added Uploaders for myself and one of the team members who would be > uploading. > > Hopefully, this should be in a good position for sponsorship > > TiA
