Quoting Piotr Ożarowski <pi...@debian.org>:
[Barry Warsaw, 2015-10-07]
* Team in Maintainers is a strong statement that fully collaborative
maintenance is preferred. Anyone can commit to the vcs and upload as
needed. A courtesy email to Uploaders can be nice but not required.
* Team in Uploaders is a weak statement of collaboration. Help in
maintaining
the package is appreciated, commits to vcs are freely welcomed, but before
uploading, please contact the Maintainer for the green light.
+1
how about making it official and adding it to the policy?
+1