Bug#840123: gnome-pkg-tools: Adding me as uploader?

[Andreas Henriksson]

Hello Samuel Thibault.

On Sat, Oct 08, 2016 at 04:33:22PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Package: gnome-pkg-tools
> Version: 0.19.7
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'll adopt the gnome-orca package, could I be added to
> /usr/share/gnome-pkg-tools/pkg-gnome.team so debian/control gets right
> in the package?

Normally people add themselves and as fas as I can see you're already
part of the pkg-gnome team on alioth and should have commit access.

OTOH, if you're only interested in this package (or possibly a few more)
and not intend to maintain a wider set of GNOME packages, then it might
be more suitable to just list yourself explicitly instead of having
your name be part of the @GNOME_UPLOADERS@ expansion. This avoids
you ending up as an Uploader in any pkg-gnome maintained package you
might feel yourself in the need to NMU or Team upload. The gnome-pkg-tools
is pretty brutal in that once you've listed yourself in pkg-gnome.team
there's no way to opt out of being part of Uploaders (except waiting
for 10 uploads to be done by someone else -- or ofcourse remove yourself
again and wait for the next upload by someone else).

Also, gnome-orca isn't really getting much attention in pkg-gnome.
Maybe it's better owned by some other team altogether? Please check
with others in #debian-gnome if they agree and you would like
to go that route.

HTH.

Regards,
Andreas Henriksson