On 8/15/26 1:20 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
Quoting Tobias Frost (2026-08-15 10:25:18)
One final clarification: this mail is not intended to reopen the
broader discussion about the usefulness or future of the Uploaders
field. That is a separate discussion, and this is not the place to
have it.
Quoting Sebastiaan Couwenberg (2026-08-15 12:41:27)
On 8/15/26 12:10 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
Quoting Sebastiaan Couwenberg (2026-08-15 11:07:03)
On 8/15/26 10:25 AM, Tobias Frost wrote:
But this is not just an MIA team task. The Uploaders field is part of
the package's maintenance metadata, and keeping it reasonably accurate
should be part of maintaining the package. If you notice that someone
listed there no longer appears to be actively maintaining the package,
please consider cleaning it up.
This will result in no-human-maintainers lintian issues, because many packages
are on life support with team uploads where no person wants to commit to the
package by adding themselves to Uploaders.
I guess we should just acknowledge that fact in the override comment.
If noone in a team wants to commit to a package by adding themselves as
in the Uploaders field, it seems that package is team-*un*maintained
and that fact should be acknowledged by moving the package to QA team.
The package is still team maintained, new upstream releases get packaged and
bugs get triaged, but only the minimum amount of effort is put in those
packages.
Orphaning the package will make it fall of radar and not even receive that
little work.
I'd prefer for policy 5.6.3 to drop the "at least one human" requirement, to
allow for team maintained packages no person takes responsibility for.
It seems you want to discuss changing the rules - that's confusing.
You're reading too much in to what's written.
I'm just raising an issue that's a consequence of the requested action of us
developers.
The lintian issue is the reason I don't trim Uploaders of the GIS packages I
help maintain.
I guess we can just not do what the MIA teams asks of us, that requires the
least amount of work.
Kind Regards,
Bas
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