On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 07:18:41AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello Bill, > > On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 02:48:36PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > The problem is that the majority of such documentation is outdated and > > obsolete to the point of being useless. > > Most team start big and then slowly falter until they are reduced to > > a single member (because it is easy to distribute work but hard to > > distribute responsibility). > > > > So yes at any time they are a number of active, hard-working team, but there > > also a larger number of phantom team that used to be active, but whose > > packages are still maintained in Debian. It is important they carry some > > valid information about the effective maintainers. > > The problem is that the information in Uploaders is no more likely to be > up-to-date than the team homepage/policy/docs. And it's positively > misleading to have some names in Uploaders who haven't worked on the > package in ages. So I don't see how my proposal introduces any new > problems; it's an improvement because it removes a source of confusion.
Information in the control files can be fixed by any uploaders/NMUers much more easily than information on a website, so control file tend to be more current. Also they cannot go off-line while unattended websites do sometimes. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
