[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] sbws package to be part of this team?

intrigeri intrigeri at debian.org
Mon Jul 23 08:56:59 BST 2018


Hi,

ju xor:
> i just created an ITP [0] for sbws [1].

Great!

> It would be nice if this package maintenance would not depend only on
> one person and i thought this is a suitable team for it.

> I have created the initial package [2] and intend to maintain it for
> some middle term. It still would need to be reviewed and uploaded by
> someone else.

> Do you think it could be part of this team?.

I think this team is a good fit for this package and I'm fine with
having the team be formally listed as its maintainer.

Note that so far, this team's packages have mostly been maintained by
the person who put them under the team umbrella in the first place:
contrary to for example the Debian Perl Group, there's little
team-wide work and collaboration going on. Thankfully there are
exceptions (e.g. some team infrastructure work a few of us took care
of in the last few years) but to be honest, don't expect that putting
sbws under the umbrella of pkg-privacy will magically get you any
active co-maintainers. Given your desire to have co-maintainers and
the "some middle term" clause (a Debian release is typically supported
for 5 years nowadays, which looks a bit more like long-term to me),
I encourage you to actively look for interested individual
co-maintainers, reviewers and sponsors, be in among current team
members or elsewhere. Personally I won't have time to put into it.

Also, adding full-blown team members (as in: with commit access to all
repos) is currently blocked until we have a policy to do that.
I expect a draft will proposed by the end of the month. And in any
case that won't prevent you from having commit access to sbws'
Vcs-Git repo :)

With these caveats: yeah, cool!

Cheers,
-- 
intrigeri



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