Package: debian-policy Assigning ownership to individuals deters group and team maintenance, as other team members will feel like they are overstepping when working on a package for which other people are marked as Uploaders.
In order to remove all barriers to team contributions and maintenance, make the 'Uploaders' field optional instead of mandatory when the 'Maintainer' is a team alias. This allows packages where we do not want to assign ownership to any individual, but leave them be purely team maintained, to do so. -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2023 10:14:54 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Make 'Uploaders' field optional for team maintenance Naming people in Uploaders assigns ownership and deters team maintenance, make the field optional --- policy/ch-binary.rst | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/policy/ch-binary.rst b/policy/ch-binary.rst index a03a3b8..e314168 100644 --- a/policy/ch-binary.rst +++ b/policy/ch-binary.rst @@ -164,8 +164,8 @@ The format of the ``Maintainer`` control field is described in :ref:`s-f-Maintainer`. If the maintainer of the package is a team of people with a shared email -address, the ``Uploaders`` control field must be present and must -contain at least one human with their personal email address. See +address, the ``Uploaders`` control field can be present, in which case it +must contain at least one human with their personal email address. See :ref:`s-f-Uploaders` for the syntax of that field. An orphaned package is one with no current maintainer. Orphaned packages
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