Hi Noah, On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 14:54, Noah Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have been having some discussion with a member of the Erlang packaging team > about best practice and comparing this with the Python Modules packaging team. > > The two teams approach things slightly differently... > > Python Modules > > * The focus is on individual maintainership > > * Uploaders is always set to the team email address > > * Maintainer is generally set to the email address of the primary person > maintaining the package even though as a team the package is sometimes > edited by other people
This is not entirely true: each one can choose to set maintainer as the team or a "real person"; for example, take a look to every module I package[1] in the team: the Maintainer field is always set to the team. Additionally, this was already discussed some time back[2]. > Erlang: [ ... 8< ... ] Well, you can even cite the perl team, with a different policy[3] > Clearly some teams will organise differently, and that's fine, but it would be > nice if we could agree a set of guidelines for using the Maintainer/Uploaders > fields consistently across teams. > > This would, at least, make using the Quality Assurance reports more useful. > > The closest thing I could find to a set of packaging team guidelines is: > > http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Guidelines > > Nothing is mentioned in relation to this issue. I think I'm not seeing the issue here: some team can even just provide a "common place to store package", a "wing" under which maintainer can keep the package. > Thoughts? Feedback? Am I missing some existing documentation? Well, I think that teams are composed by people with a common intent, so if those people agreed on a process to maintaint package, so let it be. I don't know if "imposing" something would come out with a better situation than the actual one. Cheers, Sandro [1] http://qa.debian.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED] [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2008/03/msg00014.html [3] http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/policy.html -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, Morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
