[Pkg-samba-maint] Team maintenance for lbd/tdb/tevent/talloc?

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 09:02:57AM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubulle at debian.org):
> 
> > Hello Jelmer,
> > 
> > I should have probably sent this a bit earlier but, indeed, isn't that
> > the right moment to make them team-maintained and complete their move
> > to git?
> 
> .../...
> 
> For the sake of everybody in the team : we had a quite long discussion
> with Jelmer, on #samba-technical, about all these issues.
> 
> Indeed, Jelmer was a bit annoyed by the way recent uploads happened,
> particularly the tevent one where the upload claimed to be a team
> upload while Jelmer considers the package to not be team-maintained.
It's not just me that consider it to not be team maintaind at the moment, the
Maintainer field says that as well. Now who's being anal about policy? ;-)

> I think that having the discussion more "live" helped in avoiding too
> bad misunderstandings and I'd like to thanks Jelmer for this.
Yeah, thanks for catching me on IRC to talk about this. To summarize, the
main thing that bothered me was the lack of communication and followed
by some surprises and unnecessary work. I'm glad to see some work here,
thanks for picking up the work on Samba 4 packaging.

> The outcome of the discussion is that Jelmer will, as soon as it's
> possible for him, move the converted git repositories he has in his
> private git location on alioth, to the team location. Thus, we can
> work on them to prepare them for an upload to unstable. Jelmer only
> wishes us to leave him opportunity to review changes before uploads
> happens. As we don't expect many packaging changes (except maybe a few
> policy cleaning which I'm a bit anal about...:-))), that should be
> easy.
> 
> Hopefully, we will very soon be able to have samba4 build dependencies
> in unstableand that will be thanks to the efforts of everybody...
W00t! Great to see this moving along.

Cheers,

Jelmer