tho...@goirand.fr:
On Aug 20, 2025 11:55, Lucas Nussbaum <lu...@debian.org> wrote:
What I oppose is the retrofitting of a new, not well defined policy on
the Debian group, to turn it into a "Debian Collaborative Maintenance
Team".
Lucas
Well, the "debian" namespace comes from the migration of "collab-maint" in
Alioth. You're opposed to what it has always been!!!
Thomas Goirand (zigo)
Hi,
I feel there is some confusion on what the policy of the collaborative
maintenance group in salsa is and is not. The definition I can find is
https://wiki.debian.org/Salsa/Doc#Collaborative_Maintenance:_.22Debian.22_group.
I have pasted here for convenience.
Collaborative Maintenance: "Debian" group
The debian group is for CollaborativeMaintenance (the old collab-maint on
Alioth).
The group is accessible to all Debian developers upon linking their SSO
Account, and are granted Maintainer access levels. Direct commits to
repositories in the Debian group by any Debian developer are implicitly
welcome. No pre-commit coordination (e.g. merge-request or mail) is expected.
External users (non-Debian Developers) need to request write access to
repositories inside debian group from a Debian developer they know, or their
sponsor. Access should be granted to single projects and not the whole Debian
group.
Projects under debian group cannot be transferred or deleted by anyone except Salsa administrators. In case you need to delete a project or have it transferred out into other namespaces, please contact Salsa administrators via support channel. See #Support section for contact information (tickets are preferred example).
Some highlights:
* This definition does not seem to have changed considerable since 2020
* The definition explicitly states that direct commits by any DD is
welcome. No pre-commit coordination required (such as, email or MR)
* The definition does not mention uploads at all.
* The direct commit bit was added in
https://wiki.debian.org/Salsa/Doc?action=diff&rev2=111&rev1=110 which
**explicitly** mentions that the changes is about documenting how the
salsa group differs from collab-maint. It is from 2018 and is still
present in today's definition.
I am **not** asking people to agree with this definition. Rather, go
with "I like this part of the definition but not that part, because for
me X & Y & Z is important and that part conflicts with it.".
Best regards,
Niels
