multiple uploaders

[Sebastian Ramacher]

On 2015-05-26 09:49:43, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> 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.

ACK

> > 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 team that are clearly no longer maintained and nobody in the team cares about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 Any idea how to determine "clearly no longer maintained"?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.

That's the hard part. From time to time I look at the open RC bugs and check
grep-excuses "Debian Multimedia Team" to look for packages which haven't
migrated for some months.

This method doesn't catch packages that aren't RC-buggy, but it's a start. One
could probably script something using UDD: check for packages that are team
maintained but haven't had an upload in, say, two years.

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher
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