tags 573110 + pending thanks On Tue, 09 Mar 2010, Charles Plessy wrote: > The formalisation of team uploads would help team members to show the priority > they have in the packages maintained by their team, by being Uploader for some > but not all.
I agree this is a good thing in general. I saw team uploads done with the email of the team in the changelog entry just to avoid the lintian warning and this is counter-productive. We really want names of people in the changelog. So I commited a change based on your patch: diff --git a/pkgs.dbk b/pkgs.dbk index f40e7f3..baec071 100644 --- a/pkgs.dbk +++ b/pkgs.dbk @@ -2194,6 +2194,21 @@ the new version (see <xref linkend="adopting"/>). </section> +<section id="nmu-team-upload"> +<title>NMUs vs team uploads</title> + +<para> +Sometimes you are fixing and/or updating a package because you are member of a +packaging team (which uses a mailing list as Maintainer or Uploader, see <xref +linkend="collaborative-maint"/>) but you don't want to add yourself to Uploaders +because you do not plan to contribute regularly to this specific package. If it +conforms with your team's policy, you can perform a normal upload without +being listed directly as Maintainer or Uploader. In that case, you should +start your changelog entry with the following line: <code> * Team upload.</code>. +</para> + +</section> + </section> <section id="collaborative-maint"> @@ -2268,11 +2283,17 @@ moderation for non-subscribers). </para> </listitem> </orderedlist> + <para> In any case, it is a bad idea to automatically put all team members in the -Uploaders field. It clutters the Developer's Package Overview listing (see +Uploaders field. It clutters the Developer's Package Overview listing (see <xref linkend="ddpo"/> ) with packages one doesn't really care for, and creates -a false sense of good maintenance. +a false sense of good maintenance. For the same reason, team members do +not need to add themselves to the Uploaders field just because they are +uploading the package once, they can do a “Team upload” (see <xref +linkend="nmu-team-upload"/>). Conversely, it it a bad idea to keep a +package with only the mailing list address as a Maintainer and no +Uploaders. </para> </section> -- Raphaël Hertzog Like what I do? Sponsor me: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/05/5-years-of-freexian/ My Debian goals: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/09/debian-related-goals-for-2010/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100328213301.gc19...@rivendell
