multiple uploaders

[Sebastian Ramacher]

On 2015-05-31 08:58:58, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> > Any idea how to determine "clearly no longer maintained"? I think the
> > 2-maintainers rule was intended to provide a way to demarcate that
> > line, but it didn't fulfill its promise.
> 
> Because the rule isn't enforced properly.  I'd rather argue to take
> the "Maintainer" field more seriously, that is, for packages that are
> taken care of by a single person to have that person in that field, or
> if such a person cannot be found, orphan the package properly.

I don't think that it isn't enforced properly. I think that large parts of the
team just moved on over the last year or two. If at all, there are maybe a
handfull of the hundred packages that are maintained by more than a single
person. (And fwiw, just saying "yay, count me in as Uploader" and adding
yourself as second Uploader doesn't make a package team maintained). So if we
take the Maintainer more seriously, almost every package in team ends up with
one maintainer.

For me the team has become an umbrella for multimedia packages where we help
each other in case its needed (RC bugs for example) in a more sensible way than
mininmal diffs for an NMU.

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher
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