Removing myself from uploaders in (most) med-packages / Winding down involvement a little
Hi, I have noticed that I am maintaining a number of packages inside debian-med team i.e. mentioned in "Uploaders" field. I feel that I do not have much of a personal interest in majority of those packages (I am not a bioinformatic person) and I simply lack the bandwidth to do timely maintainence. Hence, if you see my name mentioned in d/control of med-team packages, feel free to remove/drop me from there. I will however continue contributing with the $team-work that I do. -- Best, Nilesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Removing myself from uploaders in (most) med-packages / Winding down involvement a little
Hi Nilesh Am Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 08:12:28PM +0530 schrieb Nilesh Patra: > I have noticed that I am maintaining a number of packages inside > debian-med team i.e. mentioned in "Uploaders" field. > > I feel that I do not have much of a personal interest in majority of > those packages (I am not a bioinformatic person) and I simply lack the > bandwidth > to do timely maintainence. > > Hence, if you see my name mentioned in d/control of med-team packages, feel > free to remove/drop me from there. I admit its hard to decide to remove an Uploader. I did so for people who really left the team (> 5 years no commits, no changelog entry to a specific package and no other contributions in general). I'm perfectly aware that we have quite a number of "fake-Uploaders" who are way less active. However, we somehow need some real person as Uploader and I feel somehow like you that I can not be an Uploader for everything I did not changed such entries. Since you perfectly qualify as way more active than those inactive Uploaders I do not like to remove you myself. So if you next time touch a package where you feel uncomfortable beeing mentioned as Uploader feel free to replace your ID with mine - but please do it yourself since I'd be afraid that I might kick you from a package you are really keen on (for whatever reason). > I will however continue contributing with the $team-work that I do. You did a huge amount of work which the whole Debian Med community is really thankful. Just keep on with team uploads as your time permits. BTW, as I announced earlier, my own time I can dedicate to the project became less than some time ago and I do not see any change to this in the foreseable future. So if you simply trust "someone else will fix my bioinformatics package for me" this is not as reliable as it used to work a couple of years. We really need more people sharing the work, fixing bugs and introducing new packages. We have quite a number of RC bugs open and I have the feeling that the number is constantly growing. I'd happily do introductions and teaching for people who like to contribute to fill the gaps we have (despite we've got a couple of new contributors since two years). Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de
Re: Removing myself from uploaders in (most) med-packages / Winding down involvement a little
Hi, On 24.06.22 17:46, Andreas Tille wrote: Hi Nilesh Am Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 08:12:28PM +0530 schrieb Nilesh Patra: I have noticed that I am maintaining a number of packages inside debian-med team i.e. mentioned in "Uploaders" field. I admit its hard to decide to remove an Uploader. I did so for people who really left the team (> 5 years no commits, no changelog entry to a specific package and no other contributions in general). I'm perfectly aware that we have quite a number of "fake-Uploaders" who are way less active. As someone who lurks in the shadows, I want to thank you both and everyone else for the job that you are doing. Personally, I only take care of my own tools and make sure they integrate nicely with Debian. However, you ensure that thousands of bioinformaticians can do their day-to-day job by using our packages. I will however continue contributing with the $team-work that I do. You did a huge amount of work which the whole Debian Med community is really thankful. Just keep on with team uploads as your time permits. I believe that is the only way to do it. Spend the time and effort you can and is healthy but don't feel coerced into anything. Thanks again. Fabian
Re: Removing myself from uploaders in (most) med-packages / Winding down involvement a little
Hi Nilesh, Hi Andreas, Andreas Tille, on 2022-06-24: > Am Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 08:12:28PM +0530 schrieb Nilesh Patra: […] > > Hence, if you see my name mentioned in d/control of med-team packages, feel > > free to remove/drop me from there. > […] > So if you next time touch > a package where you feel uncomfortable beeing mentioned as Uploader > feel free to replace your ID with mine - but please do it yourself > since I'd be afraid that I might kick you from a package you are > really keen on (for whatever reason). In the light of Andreas' own time shrinking, my id is also available if need be (disregarding the fact that I felt having the head underwater in the past few months myself). I'll try to add myself systematically when intervening on packages where only one or the other is uploader, so the load can be a bit more evenly distributed. > > I will however continue contributing with the $team-work that I do. > > You did a huge amount of work which the whole Debian Med community is > really thankful. Just keep on with team uploads as your time permits. Nilesh, Thank You for your contributions, the amount of work you did in the team is amazing a much appreciated. :) Have a nice evening, :) -- Étienne Mollier Fingerprint: 8f91 b227 c7d6 f2b1 948c 8236 793c f67e 8f0d 11da Sent from /dev/pts/2, please excuse my verbosity. On air: Caligula's Horse - Dark Hair Down signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Removing myself from uploaders in (most) med-packages / Winding down involvement a little
Hi Étienne, Am Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 10:15:35PM +0200 schrieb Étienne Mollier: > > In the light of Andreas' own time shrinking, my id is also > available if need be (disregarding the fact that I felt having > the head underwater in the past few months myself). I'll try to > add myself systematically when intervening on packages where > only one or the other is uploader, so the load can be a bit more > evenly distributed. Thanks a lot Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de
