[Pkg-octave-devel] Updating the Uploaders field to better reflect personal commitments

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org> [2014-06-26 20:21]:

> So, out of the 54 packages maintained by the DOG, 29 have at least one 
> person (out of Mike, Rafael and myself) interested in maintaining them. 
> For those 29 packages, I therefore suggest to update the Uploaders field 
> in git according to the wiki page. Is that ok?

Ok with me.

> Then, for the remaining 25 packages, we have to find another solution. 
> Among those, 5 packages (benchmark, mapping, nnet, octgpr, plot) are 
> marked as unmaintained upstream (see 
> http://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.php), so I guess we could request 
> their removal.

Go ahead.

> That leaves us with 20 packages to be adopted. I see two possible 
> solutions: either list all team members in the Uploaders field, or 
> distribute packages randomly across team members. I guess the former 
> solution is better. What do you think?

Yes, the former proposal is more sensible.

Rafael