Re: Beyond QA: Uploaders field hygiene

On 8/15/26 9:02 PM, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> * Sebastiaan Couwenberg <[email protected]> [260815 11:51]:
>> On 8/15/26 10:25 AM, Tobias Frost wrote:
>>> But this is not just an MIA team task. The Uploaders field is part of
>>> the package's maintenance metadata, and keeping it reasonably accurate
>>> should be part of maintaining the package. If you notice that someone
>>> listed there no longer appears to be actively maintaining the package,
>>> please consider cleaning it up.
>>
>> This will result in no-human-maintainers lintian issues, because many packages are on life support with team uploads where no person wants to commit to the package by adding themselves to Uploaders.
>>
>> I guess we should just acknowledge that fact in the override comment.
> 
> Or you can just leave it as it is? The next uploader who cares enough about the package can add themselves. In the meantime it serves as reminder that there is, in fact, no human uploader.

Someone without OCD might be able to live with that, but team maintained packages I upload really need to be lintian clean.

And lintian errors should really be fixed if they're not false positives.

The override comment also serves as a reminder that a human uploader is wanted, but as I will most likely be the next person to upload the package it will stay there for quite a while.

The pool of people working on GIS and OSM packages as pretty much dried up, leaving me to do janitorial work on the packages in the team nobody else still works on.

These other people willing to work on packages are mostly theoretical, the contributions the packages get are mostly patches in the BTS by maintainers of rdeps and archive-wide QA.

Kind Regards,

Bas