Re: finally end single-person maintainership

[Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be>]

On Sun, Apr 07, 2024 at 04:04:18PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Wouter,
> 
> Am Sun, Apr 07, 2024 at 03:31:43PM +0200 schrieb Wouter Verhelst:
> > [Feel free to quote any part of this email which I wrote outside of this
> > mailinglist]
> 
> OK, moving the discussion to debian-devel where it should belong.
> 
> > Debian packages need to be well maintained. In some cases, having
> > multiple maintainers on a package improves the resulting quality of
> > packages. But in some other cases, it does not; one example for this
> > second case is my package "logtool", which I'm going to upload to fix
> > #1066251 soon and for which by the simple act of doing that I will
> > double the amount of uploads it's seen in the past five years (and the
> > number of uploads in the past 10 can still be counted on the fingers of
> > a single hand).
> > 
> > This is not because it's not well maintained; it's because the package
> > just *does not require* a lot of work to be kept up to date: upstream
> > has not been active for over 20 years, but it still performs the job it
> > was designed to do, as it was designed to, and I see no need to have it
> > removed from the archive.
> 
> What is your opinion about pushing logtool to Salsa?

I did that as part of my latest upload :)

https://salsa.debian.org/wouter/logtool

(I realize now that I forgot to add VCS headers... ah well, next time
I'm sure)

[...]
> > If there are stupid barriers to helping people out by doing NMUs or
> > taking over packages, then by all means let's break down those barriers.
> 
> I was sometimes confronted with those barriers.

And that's not good, and we should work on those.

I just don't think that mandating team maintenance drops those barriers.

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I will have a Tin-Actinium-Potassium mixture, thanks.