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

[Stephan Hermann]

Hi Raphael,

On Monday 16 January 2006 12:45, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> 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.

Thx for that :)

> 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 ?

I have a question:

1. Is this discussed with the MOTU hopefuls or MOTUs who are/were contributing 
to Ubuntu, if they want that?

E.g. I don't mind, if someone takes over my package and will push it into 
Debian. Well, if it has to be, he/she (the new package maintainer) have to 
put his name into the Maintainer field. Because then, the debian package will 
be our upstream, and I don't have any work anymore for taking care about 
it :)
But I can't speak for others, because there are some people who were uploading 
to revu and after some time to ubuntu, which are going the NM way as well, or 
will go.
So a very detailed check about packages which are in Ubuntu but not in debian 
has to be done and it has to be discussed with the creator.

2. I don't think it's a good idea to put the "MOTU Team" as maintainer of 
those packages, because we aren't the maintainer. There is someone who 
created the package, but if he/she doesn't want to take care about the 
package anymore, doesn't matter if it's in ubuntu or debian, and there are no  
or one installation(s) of this package, we should think about removing them 
from the archives (regarding universe).
It's right, MOTUs are fixing/changing the packages anyways, but maintaining, 
no, (maintaining in the sense of debian, and yes there are some 
exceptions :)). 

Only the creator of the package can allow the integration of the package into 
this SVN. We should respect that.

Sorry for my 2euro-cent :)

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