[Pkg-tigervnc-devel] Place tigervnc under the umbrella of the new Debian Remote Maintainers team

[Ola Lundqvist]

Hi Mike

I do not have any real objection on this. However there is one thing
to consider and that is whether people will feel responsible for each
package.

I have been maintaining vnc for more than 10 years now and I have seen
that people are active for a while, but then do not feel responsible
anymore. If the package is team maintained then nobody will notice
that the uploader is absent and no-one will feel responsible for
orphaning it. So it will be silently orphaned instead.

This is my main concern about a larger umbrella. The really small
umbrella of tigervnc have a similar problem already so maybe it is not
so much of a change.

Best regards

// Ola

On 30 November 2016 at 09:40, Mike Gabriel
<mike.gabriel at das-netzwerkteam.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> members of the Debian Edu team (esp. Dominik George and me) have set a new
> team on Alioth addressing all aspects for remote (graphical) work on Debian
> systems.
>
> These days, too much focus is put on hardware oriented graphical rendering
> (Wayland, Mir, client-side compisiting, compositing effects in desktop
> environments, mail clients that require OpenGL, etc.). Several of those
> recent techniques and software being optimized for them make it hard for
> people who want to use such software / desktop environments over remote
> connections.
>
> We feel that Debian needs a task force that is aware of remote graphical
> work and that makes sure desktop software in Debian is capable of being used
> from remote. Thus, we set up this new Debian Remote Maintainers team.
>
> Instead of maintainers working on their "remote" software package by
> themselves or in a small team, I'd like to propose bundling forces and
> expertise under a greater umbrella. I think that tigervnc is a proper
> candidate for this team, too.
>
>
> What do you think?
>
> Mike
>
>
> PS: Software already in the team context:
>
>   xrdp
>   guacomole (not-yet-uploaded)
>   x2goclient
>
> PPS: Software to be migrated to the team:
>
>   all X2Go components (incl. NXv3, soon to be uploaded)
>   freerdp(2)
>
>
> PPPS: Future packages:
>
>   all Arctica Project components (for Debian 10)
>
>
>
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