[Utnubu-discuss] Utnubu and collaborative maintenance with Ubuntu MOTU

[Amaya]

Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Hello everyone,

Hi there!

> as you know, I'm trying to push forward collaborative maintenance with
> Ubuntu. With several Ubuntu MOTU we'd like to make that a reality for
> new packages created by Ubuntu.

Good. I have been wanting to see this happen for a long time.

> Obviously the MOTU need sponsors to upload their packages inside
> Debian.  It strikes me that the Utnubu team should certainly be their
> first contact when they're looking for sponsors.

Fully agreed.

> The maintainer field in the package should be either the name of
> someone that would like to maintain the package or a mailing list to
> be defined by the MOTU team which created the package. Stefan ?
> Rheinhard ?

If it is actual collaborative maintainance, please use a mailing list.

> Feel free to sponsor them ! (Just say it publicly here to avoid
> duplication of work).

IMHO the right way to avoid "duplication of work" is to use the Debian
BTS. Are ITP bugs already filed for those packages with Cc: to
debian-devel?

Thanks.

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