Workflow for maintaining Asterisk

[Wildenhain, Benedikt]

Hello everyone,

reading on https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/VoIP the 'New Release' paragraph I noticed it only seems to
cover the case of DMs and DDs uploading a new release as they should first upload the package to
unstable, NEW or "wherever you uploaded" (I assume that doesn't include mentors.debian.net, where I
actually could upload). [Side note: The paragraph said "whereever you upoaded" until recently, so
it's probably not read too often.]

After Jonas asked for help packaging Asterisk I stepped up to help and I am currently one of the
uploaders of https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-voip-team/asterisk, but according to the rules on the
mentioned wiki page shouldn't push to repo, so I prepared an update, got some Feedback for changes
from Jonas and uploaded this to https://salsa.debian.org/benedikt-guest/asterisk.git in September,
announced this via IRC in #debian-voip and recently filed a pull request using salsa.

As I recently saw the asterisk-pkg-voip-team repo was changed by Martin Rampersad without uploading
to the Debian archive (based on the state of pkg-voip-team/asterisk from august), I wonder whether
the rules written down at the wiki are still those currently used (or possibly the Asterisk repo is
an exception?).

I wonder what a sensible workflow would be, if the uploader is not able to use dput to the Debian
archive by themselves. Where should they put the prepared update before asking whether someone is
willing to upload the package to the archive after reviewing it?

I see those options accomplish this:

1. Commit directly to the team-repo (given you have the right to write to the repo and can assume
other maintainers/uploaders won't object) 
2. Use a pull request (I am personally most comfortable with this option, given that reachability of
Salsa will improve in the future)
3. Commit to your own repo and announce on the team mailing list (I was told by Jonas that IRC
wasn't the appropriate channel). This option would generally be fine for me, but I wonder whether
that doesn't cause too much noise for people less interested in the Asterisk package.

Kind regards,
Benedikt Wildenhain

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