Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> writes: > But then that prompts the obvious question, "then what is the point of > the Maintainer field having an email address, if messages sent to that > address will often go unread?", and I don't see a good answer to that.
I think this suggests that the Maintainer field is no longer necessarily relevant for some packages. Maybe update policy to say that if a package is MISSING a 'Maintainer:' field, it is open for all DDs to do uploads? Instead of ADDING more things, we could try to REMOVE things and attach semantics to that. I would happily remove my name from all packages that I have failed to avoid putting me as Maintainer for. Compare how homebrew, guix, and other distributions work, I don't recall them having explicit per-package maintainers like Debian has. I understand some people want to claim imaginary bit ownership, and we should let them, but an opt-in method for the rest of us would be nice. /Simon
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