Re: unmaintained packages hidden by team maintenance (was Re: Bits from the DPL)

Le Thu, Feb 05, 2026 at 10:58:22PM +0100, Simon Josefsson a écrit :
> 
> So if this is the de-facto situation for Python, Go and Rust team, I
> wonder if we shouldn't make the 'Uploaders:' field optional to allow
> team Maintainer: fields without any particular Uploaders: fields.

Same observations here for the R Packages Maintainers team: most uploads are
Team uploads.

Moreover, when somebody leaves the team and kindly updates the Uploaders field
in the VCS to remove their name, now the packages pop up in the radar with
"hey, something happened in the VCS, maybe you should upload it", which is not
really helpful...

Have a nice day,

Charles