Re: QA first: looking beyond the MIA process

Chris Hofstaedtler <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.project
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* Marc Haber <[email protected]> [260811 10:11]:
>On Tue, Aug 04, 2026 at 07:52:16AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
>>I also wonder whether you might consider opening a bug to update the
>>list of uploaders of the package molly-guard as task for any DD or
>>remains the task of the MIA team.
>
>As one of the maintainers of molly-guard, I must have missed 
>something. Is molly-guard considered unmaintained for some reason?

>Or 
>is this an encrypted hint that one of the people listed in 
>molly-guard's Uploaders field is MIA or no longer a DD or DM?

Reading from context, this part applies. Maybe for two of them.

>If the latter is the case, I am pretty sure that I don't want the duty 
>of having to check the Uploaders list whenever I do an upload.

Reading from context, that was Andreas' question - will there be 
bugs?

>That 
>should be left to an automated process. I don't see an 
>action-requesting issue in a person who is no longer DD/DM to be 
>listed in Uploaders, they couldn't do an upload anyway. I will of 
>course modify the Uploaders field when somebody asks me to,

The traditional "Please update the Uploaders list" bugs would be 
that ask.

> but I am 
>not willing to manually research that every time I do an upload 
>unless, for example, lintian has grown a check.

Best,
Chris
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