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

[Stefan Potyra]

Hi,

Am Montag 16 Januar 2006 13:52 schrieb Reinhard Tartler:
> On 1/16/06, Amaya <amaya at debian.org> wrote:
> > Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > > If we have a well-defined maintainer, even if he's not DD, I don't see
> > > why he couldn't have his name in the maintainer field.
> >
> > Sure. I missunderstood you. I thought a group of people was behind these
> > packages.

Though there is no explicit maintainership in ubuntu, usually the person who 
did the initial packaging has better knowledge and/or takes responsibility to 
maintain this package.
OTOH these packages should also reflect, that they are maintained 
cooperatively, so that nobody is "scared off" not to touch the package, 
because it has an explicit maintainer listed. 

What about setting maintainer to a list and co-maintainer to the person who 
initially created the package?

> min12xw it quite similar: it is a printer driver. I cannot test it at
> all, because I don't have such hardware. Stefan can only test it on
> his ubuntu computer. Nevertheless, he thinks this package is also
> useful to debian too, so the same problem as with wifi-radar occurs.

Erm, I still have unstable installed as well (and a long time ago did even 
initial packaging on unstable).
However I personally like the collaborative modell as in "Though I try to do 
most of the maintainer work, if s.o. else can improve the package, just go 
ahead".

Cheers and thanks for your help,
	Stefan.