Hi, The LowThresholdNMU wiki page[0] lists maintainers (and packages) for which NMUs are welcomed. However, in it's current form, it's quite useless: it's very difficult to check if a given package is NMU-friendly, since the page is not machine-parseable. Also, since it's not very useful and visible, it doesn't provide an incentive for maintainers to add themselves to the list: there are probably some NMU-friendly maintainers who aren't in that list.
[0] http://wiki.debian.org/LowThresholdNmu I think that we should improve that: (1) the list should move to a text file in a VCS. For example, we could use a special directory in the collab-maint alioth project, or simply a repository writable by all DDs on svn.d.o. This would improve the way history is kept too. (2) the list should be machine-readable. We could use the following format: maintainer_email [!]package1, [!]package2, [!]package3 So we would simply list which packages are NMU-friendly, and use a special package '*' to indicate that all packages are NMU-friendly. '!' would indicate that a package has to be excluded from the list. Example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *, !bash, !dash means that all of joe's packages are NMU-friendly, except bash and dash. This format could be extended later: we could use regexps, and maybe add comments, like: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *, !/lib.*-perl$/ [those are team-maintained, please talk with the pkg-perl team], bash [only for important & RC issues] (3) make the state visible on the PTS (see #429883). For each package, we could have an icon indicating if the package is NMU-friendly or not. All packages would have an icon, so having the "NMU-hostile" icon by default could help maintainers remember to add themselves to the list. Comments? Is anyone interested in working on that? I will have problems finding the time in the near future. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
