On Wed, 19 Jul 2023 at 10:26, Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> wrote: > > control: forcemerge 798476 1041464 > > Hello, > > On Wed 19 Jul 2023 at 10:18am +01, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > > 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. > > I wanted to do this some years ago, but the MIA team objected. So you'd > need to speak to them first.
Thanks, I skimmed through that long discussion and it seems to me it went nowhere. I don't think there's any benefit in attempting to just restart it. What about escalating to the CTTE and ask them to make a decision? That way the matter can be closed one way or the other. Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
