[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Request to join the privacy maintainer team

[Yifei Zhan]

On Wednesday, August 20, 2025 7:25:14 AM Coordinated Universal Time Simon 
Josefsson wrote:
> Maybe it would make sense to move some of the Go packages in pkg-privacy
> to the Go team?  Snowflake and some other Go projects in pkg-privacy
> (goptlib, siphash, obfs4proxy, maybe others) could use some care from Go
> packaging people.  We already moved edwards25519-extras and dropped
> golang-ed25519 as a result of coordination with other Go packages.
> 

Agree, I discussed this with meskio that the golang team is far more active 
and infrastructure sharing can ease the burden of long term maintenance. 

> I find the team joining process on salsa to be problematic.  I had no
> idea about the quorum aspect, as it means a responsibility for all those
> added to the pkg-privacy group to pay attention to membership
> applications.  I forgot I even was a member, so +1 on the membership
> application to help with the quorum.
> 
> Membership is here:
> https://salsa.debian.org/groups/pkg-privacy-team/-/group_members
> 
> /Simon
> 
> Hefee <hefee at debian.org> writes:
> > Hey,
> > 
> > I support this request, that yifei joining the privacy team.
> > 
> > Actually how I find the numbers/names of current team members, to know the
> > quorum?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > hefee
> > 
> > --
> > 
> > On Dienstag, 19. August 2025 11:47 meskio wrote:
> >> Is being over a week and not a single response to this email. I guess we
> >> are not going to get the support needed in two weeks.
> >> 
> >> Let's wait the remaining 6 days to meet the required 2 weeks, and if no
> >> response has arrived I think we should move the package to the golang
> >> team
> >> so we can keep maintaining it.
> >> 
> >> Quoting meskio (2025-08-11 13:56:19)
> >> 
> >> > Quoting Yifei Zhan (2025-08-10 17:40:10)
> >> > 
> >> > > I'm Yifei Zhan (yifei on Salsa) and I'd like to join the privacy
> >> > > maintainer
> >> > > team to help maintaining snowflake as well as packaging webtunnel and
> >> > > lyrebird.
> >> > > 
> >> > > I have requested access to the team on Salsa.
> >> > 
> >> > I support this request. I do need help maintaining the snowflake
> >> > package
> >> > and I've being talking with Yifei about this.
> >> > 
> >> > If I understand the process[0] correctly we need to wait two weeks and
> >> > have 1/3 of team members supporting it. I don't have permissions in the
> >> > salsa group, so I guess I'm not one of this team members.
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> > [0]https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-privacy-team/team-processes/blob/master
> >> > /pk
> >> > g-privacy-process.mdwn
> > 
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