[backintime] Switch the maintainer to "Debian Python Team (DPT)"

[c . buhtz]

Dear Python Team,
dear Jonathan,

first of all, please take my congratulations for the Debian 12 release 
yesterday.


I'm member of the upstream maintenance team of "Back In Time" [1].
In short: I would like to switch its Debian Maintainer to "Debian Python 
Team (DPT)".


I'm a little concerned that the way I'm addressing this is perceived as 
rude. I'm not that familiar with how things work here yet.

I tried to contact some persons in private before this.

Currently Jonathan Wiltshire is official DM for that package.
I'm sure he makes a good job as DM. But other packages might have higher 
priorities. He do not response in time and in some topics never. As 
upstream maintainer I miss the dialog with "my distro maintainer". Also 
there was a RFS [2] without concrete response/decision. It wasn't clear 
to me if it wasn't uploaded because of the Freeze or just because no one 
was there to do it.


In the last weeks before the Debian release there where other people 
around supporting me.

Fabio Fantoni, Fabian Wolff and Sven Geuner for example.

On the site of the Team is there a possibility to take over  as DM for 
the package?

Is there a defined process how this should be done?

Thanks in advance.
Christian Buhtz

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Re: [backintime] Switch the maintainer to "Debian Python Team (DPT)"

[Jonathan Carter]

Hi

On 2023/06/12 09:51, c.bu...@posteo.jp wrote:

Currently Jonathan Wiltshire is official DM for that package.
I'm sure he makes a good job as DM. But other packages might have higher 
priorities. He do not response in time and in some topics never. As 
upstream maintainer I miss the dialog with "my distro maintainer". Also 
there was a RFS [2] without concrete response/decision. It wasn't clear 
to me if it wasn't uploaded because of the Freeze or just because no one 
was there to do it.


(just for the avoidance of confusion, I'm an entirely different Jonathan)

You're very likely correct that the freeze impacted the upload. To 
upload newer versions of software (even for bug fixes) so late in the 
freeze, you have to write a proper justification to the release team and 
convince them that the benefit of the upload outweighs the risk, so in 
the last few weeks of the freeze, very few packages get updated.


Adding DPT to at least uploaders and having the package VCS in the 
python-team namespace would probably be a good idea, but that's up to 
Jonathan Wiltshire.


-Jonathan