On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 07:20:36PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > We should go for "weak code ownership" instead, which *in theory* is > what we already have (given every DD can NMU any package), but the > *culture* of strong ownership is so rooted in the project that people > are still too afraid of using it. Also, we don't have good tools[^] that
Indeed, and it has apparently even crept into team maintenance such that team members don't touch "other people's" team-maintained packages. > I'm personally convinced that a strong, symbolic act is needed to > actually make weak code ownership a reality in Debian. Abolishing the > Maintainer field all together[*] might be it. Sounds good to me.
