Package: developers-reference Version: 3.4.3 Severity: normal Following a discussion on debian-newmaint, I think it's important to improve the section about the duties to clearly communicate to all package maintainers (and not DD only) that the bare minimum is what I described in the pledge below (it probably needs to reformulated in the third person for integration in the devel-ref):
---- As a package maintainer, I will do my best to help the Debian project release a stable version of our operating system. In particular, I will work together with the release team and I will keep all packages associated to my name free of release critical bugs. To this effect, if I'm not registered as being busy or in vacation, I will start working on my release critical bugs as soon as possible (in less than 1 week in common cases). If I can't deal with them in a timely fashion, I will state it clearly in the associated bug reports, tag them help and invite other contributors either to provide a patch or to do a non-maintainer upload. If I do not manage to handle release critical bugs in the above described way, or if I almost never deal with any of my RC bugs by myself, I will: • not refuse help and even propose co-maintainance to good contributors • recognize my failure and actively try to find a new maintainer and/or co-maintainers • not complain if the quality assurance team decides to orphan the package I recognize that my work is not limited to unstable. I will also work with the stable release team and the security team to provide updated packages for the stable and/or testing distribution when some issues deserve it. I am aware of the limits of my skills and my available time and I will avoid packaging software that I would not be able to maintain properly. ---- See discussion starting here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2009/09/msg00018.html And in particular the message of Christoph Berg (DAM): http://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2009/09/msg00032.html Cheers, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
