Re: who are the kernel maintainers?

["Gustavo Franco" <stratus@debian.org>]

On 7/4/07, Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 18:18 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul  4, 2007 at 09:14:24 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> >
> > > I'm trying to find out who has responsibility for Bug #430646.  It's a
> > > critical bug, which should normally get some attention, and mail to
> > > debian-kernel on the question, by at least a half-dozen people, has
> > > gotten no response that I can see.
> > >
> > Package: linux-modules-contrib-2.6
> > Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-kernel@lists.debian.org>
> > Uploaders: Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>
> >
> > Are you really unable to find that out for yourself?
>
> Nope.  But Daniel Baumann is clearly not the only maintainer.  Or is he?
> If he is the only one responsible, then why is "Debian Kernel Team"
> listed?  I got that part.  Daniel Baumann, check.  Now, my question is,
> "Who is Debian Kernel Team?"  Just a list of the people, or some
> description of who is responsible for fixing critical bugs when the
> uploader hasn't attended to them.

People behind the Debian Kernel Team:
http://alioth.debian.org/project/memberlist.php?group_id=30428

It doesn't mean that everyone is directly involved in every bit of
kernel packaging as a whole. The primary contact for Debian Kernel
related issues is debian-kernel@lists.debian.org as you know, but
considering that Daniel is the only one person listed in the
linux-modules-contrib-2.6 Uploads field if nobody is answering you on
the list, mail him directly.

If Daniel is MIA (and I know he isn't) you just need to push one
person (see link above) of the people involved in the team to fix the
problem for you, or one of the admins to give you rw access on the
repository and do the stuff by yourself. The third option considering
the bug you cited is an NMU, following the current rules, of course.

regards,
-- stratus
http://stratusandtheswirl.blogspot.com