Re: Beyond QA: Uploaders field hygiene

Quoting Simon Josefsson (2026-08-16 10:31:59)
> Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > Quoting Sebastiaan Couwenberg (2026-08-15 11:07:03)
> >> 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.
> >
> > If noone in a team wants to commit to a package by adding themselves as
> > in the Uploaders field, it seems that package is team-*un*maintained
> > and that fact should be acknowledged by moving the package to QA team.
> 
> I disagree -- and think this is at the core of what proper "team"
> maintainance of packages could be.
> 
> To me, team maintainance would be one where the team as a collective
> take responsibility for a package, but no individual person insists on
> the ego-boost of assigning personal ownership of the outcome, and
> through social means of the Uploader field signal that others should not
> feel the same level of ownership.

Do you mean "could be" and "would be" as future tense?

I am not simply nitpicking here - I genuinely find it quite confusing
to mix in speculations about future Debian into a conversation about
current rules in Debian.

 - Jonas

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