multiple uploaders

[Felipe Sateler]

On 26 May 2015 at 09:38, Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On 2015-05-26 14:33:41, IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU) wrote:
> > hmm, nobody ever answered to this email.
> >
> > mira's recent mail regarding a 2nd uploader of qxgedit reminded me of
> > that, and i would like to re-ask:
> >
> > How much do we want to enforce our ">=2 uploaders per package" rule?
> >
> > If a package does not have a 2nd uploader (any longer), should it be
> > removed from the team (e.g. after some grace period)?
>
> I think the rule is useless. It doesn't prevent us from having two persons on
> Uploaders and both are MIA.

I have been thinking we should ditch the rule as well. I think having
a common home (even if a single maintainers is currently active)
should make it easier for third-parties interested in multimedia to
collaborate, and that may as well mean co-maintaining previously
singly-maintained packages. Plus, many packages do not require much
activity anyway.

> I'd rather orphan/remove the packages from the
> team that are clearly no longer maintained and nobody in the team cares about
> them anymore.

Any idea how to determine "clearly no longer maintained"? I think the
2-maintainers rule was intended to provide a way to demarcate that
line, but it didn't fulfill its promise.

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler