[Pkg-pascal-devel] maintainer e-mail address?

[Paul Gevers]

[resend to the list instead of the owner]

On 24-05-18 09:51, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I want to start updating the Maintainer e-mail address in our packages
> (discussion triggered due to a new version of Lazarus; working on it). I
> actually want to use the tracker.debian.org address associated with the
> freepascal team¹. I noticed that currently I am the only one on that
> team (I never advertised that I created the team). Using
> tracker.debian.org has multiple advantages over using this list:
> 
> 1) tracker.debian.org enables you to subscribe to the pieces of
> information you want. E.g. one could disable automatically generated
> messages during holidays, while not missing out on human conversations
> on the list, while during normal periods one enables everything.
> 
> 2) currently bug and upload information is stored multiple times on the
> debian infrastructure. Using tracker enables us to reduce the
> multiplication.
> 
> 3) Encouraging people to use the tracker is the way forward to in the
> end remove the need to store meta-data in the debian packages, which
> comes up every so often in discussions that that is something we should
> get rid of.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Paul
> PS1: we can change the team slug (the URL and local part of the e-mail)
> if people don't think "freepascal" is the right slug. I recommend
> against putting "team" in the slug, because the proposed e-mail address
> for the Maintainer field is team+<slug>@tracker.debian.org
> PS2: regardless of the outcome of this discussion, I recommend people to
> subscribe (with the right keywords enabled/disabled) to the team.
> 
> ¹ https://tracker.debian.org/teams/freepascal/
> 

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