On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 10:19:28PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Tobias Frost <t...@debian.org> writes: > > On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 04:09:54PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> Is there some way right now for me to say "any Debian contributor with > >> upload rights should feel free to merge changes and upload this package > >> without needing to consult me at all, and I will subscribe to the > >> packages feed for the package and say something if something happens > >> that I don't like" with a packaging repository on Salsa? And if not, > >> would that be a good way to start? > > > In my understanding this is exactly the purpose of the Debian group on > > salsa. > > As [1] says: > > Direct commits to repositories in the Debian group by any Debian > > developer are implicitly welcome. No pre-commit coordination > > (e.g. merge-request or mail) is expected. > > > [1] > > https://wiki.debian.org/Salsa/Doc#Collaborative_Maintenance:_.22Debian.22_group > > What I'm missing, and maybe this is just me not understanding, is the > uploads part. Does that also imply that anyone can just upload? (And > what about the minor protocol parts of that, such as what to put into > Maintainer and Uploaders?) > > But I was wondering if this was what the Salsa Debian group was supposed > to be and we just haven't really used it very much (possibly because there > aren't that many volunteers to upload random packages?).
(Of course I can only speak for myself,) but I always understood it that the Debian group was designed for maintaining packaged together, and in my interpretation of "maintaining" this includes uploading. The salsa announcement [2] also more broadly talks about "allowing … to work on your package"; this wording also implies for me that uploads are welcome… In this spirit, I did several "Team uploads" already for projects in the Debian group; nobody complained about that towards me so far… (Maybe this would be a good opportunity to evaluate the project's oppinion on this, and then document that in more clear words on the wiki?) [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2017/12/msg00003.html Cheers, -- tobi > > -- > Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> >
