On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Piotr Ożarowski <pi...@debian.org> wrote: > [Barry Warsaw, 2015-09-29] >> How should the change be acknowledged by the >> maintainer? Should I Cc the mailing list when I contact the maintainer? Is > > do we really need a written policy how to contact fellow co-maintainer? > Ping on IRC, send an email, send a message via xmpp or phone, ... use > whatever you usually use to contact any other Debian maintainer. > > An example message: > "I just commited some changes in foo related to bar. Please take a look, > I plan to upload it to unstable in a day or two. Let me know if I should > wait a bit longer or if you're not OK with these changes. Thanks" > > I think such message to all Uploaders who clearly know more about given > package than I do is a good practice even if team is listed in > Maintainer field. I don't think sending such message after fixing a typo > is needed, but it's definitely a must when someone replaces dh with > cdbs or vice versa. > >> it okay to commit to vcs but not upload? How long do you wait for feedback >> before you can do the upload? > > yes, it's always OK to commit changes (which can be reverted). It's not OK > to force someone else to maintain these changes by uploading it. > >> Should we have some automated tools to help out here? I'm not sure where to > > no, we already have -commits mailing list which nobody reads. Yet > another reason why team should be in Uploaders and not in Maintainer > field. > >> Do all team members understand the implications when they set the two fields? >> Some maintainers may not really care and may have been less conscientious >> about setting the fields. > > Maintainer vs Uploaders rules needs to be moved to policy. I will > propose a patch to the policy soon (I'd prefer a native speaker to do > it, though) > >> The wiki says that the general rule of thumb is to set the team as >> Maintainer, >> to which I agree. > > I don't (due to "package and forget" issue)
+1 on everything you wrote -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi
