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

[Simon Josefsson]

Yifei Zhan <yifei at zhan.science> writes:

> 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. 

If this is a general opinion, we could move all the Go packages to the
Go team and all non-Go packages to the pkg-security team, and continue
work together in those teams.  I'm trying to wind down the 'Debian
Authentication Maintainers' team in a similar fashion, moving packages
to pkg-security (there is just a small number of packages left now),
however I prefer to put things in the /debian/ salsa namespace as a
long-term stable namespace to reduce the need for future moves.

/Simon

>> 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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