[Pkg-sssd-devel] Bug#1146574: [DELAYED/7] Team upload sssd 2.13.1-1 (no access to the Git repo on salsa)

[Mike Gabriel]

Hi Marc, hi Simon,

On  Fr 04 Sep 2026 15:31:21 CEST, Simon Josefsson wrote:

> Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de> writes:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 03, 2026 at 01:37:57PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>>> I'm in the sssd-team on Salsa and made some uploads, and I now sent an
>>> Salsa invite for 'sunweaver' to become Maintainer of the sssd-team on
>>> Salsa.  Unless someone objects, I suggest that you push to the real sssd
>>> git project instead of your fork.  There seems to be nobody else
>>> actively working on it anyway.
>>
>> Yes please!
>>
>> Add me as well, please.
>
> What is your Salsa username?
>
> I'm not sure how I got maintainer access to the project, so I hope I'm
> not abusing it by inviting you and others who express interest.  Any
> improvements to the 'sssd' package seems useful though, so pending any
> objections, let's just proceed.  My focus in the sssd-team has been the
> *-wrapper packages because I use them personally.

;-)

>> There is also a NMU announcement by a new DD, please get in touch with
>> them as well to consider adding them to the team.
>
> Do you have a pointer?  Wasn't that 'sunweaver'?

Or someone else? That'd be interesting.

>>> What do you think about moving all of these projects into the /debian/
>>> Salsa namespace?
>>
>> Yes please. A possible reason for NOT moving is that sssd is somewhat
>> security related and we might not want joe random DD to push to
>> debian/latest. That's at least the reason why sudo is not in the
>> /debian/ Salsa namespace.

Valid aspect, Marc.

> Yeah, I understand this concern, however I think it is weak: if someone
> abuses the powers, the rest of us 1) can clean up the mess by
> force-pushing restoring things, and 2) that person will have burned
> their credibility on Salsa.  I'm hoping the social pressure to behave
> will be sufficient.  But there is no rush on this, let's see how
> team-maintainance can work going forward.

Yeah. No rush is probably good.

>>> We could also change the Maintainer field to some
>>> group with more participators, such as the pkg-security or Debian
>>> Commons teams.  Both changes may bring more new contributors, as more
>>> people will be able to commit improvements and/or feel entitled to work
>>> on sssd-related projects.
>>
>> I'd prefer Maintainer: Debian SSSD Maintainers <sssd at packages.debian.org>
>> and named Uploaders.

+1 from me, too.

>> But everything that moves in any direction is better than just staying
>> with the current state.
>
> Indeed.  I don't care strongly about any of these packages, and I am
> happy people step up to help, so just want to promote that.

Doing so, currently.

;-)

Mike


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