Re: Standard description file about maintainer groups

2005-03-30 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Ola Lundqvist ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > A common way is to list the contact address for the group > as maintainer and each person responsible for uploads in Uploaders. > You miss non official Debian developers this way though. This is the way d-i packages are handled. This is also the way I

Re: Standard description file about maintainer groups

2005-03-30 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Ola Lundqvist dijo [Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 10:37:33AM +0200]: > > * Sean Perry [Sun, 27 Mar 2005 18:36:49 -0800]: > > > > > Source: mysource > > > Maintainer: Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Maintainers: Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > I left the Maintainer in place to a

Re: Standard description file about maintainer groups

2005-03-29 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Frank Küster [Tue, Mar 29 2005, 02:25:03PM]: > Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Some people call that file MAINTAINERS, some README.svn or similar, and > > some do not do this at all, so someone needs to ask somebody or get a > > crystal ball to learn about the repository of

Re: Standard description file about maintainer groups

2005-03-29 Thread Frank Küster
Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello fellow maintainers, > > with organisation in groups becoming more and more popular, IMO it is now > time to find some convention for declaring the group members and > guidelines inside of the Debian source package. > > Some people call that file MAIN

Re: Standard description file about maintainer groups

2005-03-28 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Ola Lundqvist [Mon, 28 Mar 2005 10:37:33 +0200]: > A common way is to list the contact address for the group > as maintainer and each person responsible for uploads in Uploaders. > You miss non official Debian developers this way though. Nothing mandates that the Uploaders field is DD-only, A

Re: Standard description file about maintainer groups

2005-03-28 Thread George Danchev
On Monday 28 March 2005 12:30, David Schmitt wrote: > On Monday 28 March 2005 00:04, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > I suggest debian/README.Debian.Maintainers as the filename. > > Hmm .. Following from README to README.Debian, wouldn't AUTHORS.Debian make > more sense? > > Also, often this list is already

Re: Standard description file about maintainer groups

2005-03-28 Thread David Schmitt
On Monday 28 March 2005 00:04, Eduard Bloch wrote: > I suggest debian/README.Debian.Maintainers as the filename. Hmm .. Following from README to README.Debian, wouldn't AUTHORS.Debian make more sense? Also, often this list is already present in debian/copyright ("packaged by ...") Regards, Da

Re: Standard description file about maintainer groups

2005-03-28 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hello On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 07:45:31AM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Sean Perry [Sun, 27 Mar 2005 18:36:49 -0800]: > > > Source: mysource > > Maintainer: Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Maintainers: Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I left the Maintainer in place to allow

Re: Standard description file about maintainer groups

2005-03-27 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Sean Perry [Sun, 27 Mar 2005 18:36:49 -0800]: > Source: mysource > Maintainer: Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Maintainers: Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I left the Maintainer in place to allow for some backwards > compatibility. This could be the 'captain' of the project.

Re: Standard description file about maintainer groups

2005-03-27 Thread Sean Perry
Eduard Bloch wrote: So I suggest to set a kind of soft policy: every package maintained by a group should keep a file (with a common filename) in the Debian diff, which tells all neccessary things: - who are members of that group - which person from this group is responsible for exactly this pack

Standard description file about maintainer groups

2005-03-27 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hello fellow maintainers, with organisation in groups becoming more and more popular, IMO it is now time to find some convention for declaring the group members and guidelines inside of the Debian source package. Some people call that file MAINTAINERS, some README.svn or similar, and some do not