Re: Packaging team best practice

2008-08-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:54:09 +0100, Noah Slater wrote: > 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. There were two BOFs at DebConf about team-mai

Re: Packaging team best practice

2008-08-26 Thread Noah Slater
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 03:32:25PM +0100, Noah Slater wrote: > From some of the private conversations I have had I am aware that some people > do not feel it is appropriate to list a team's email address in the Uploaders > field under any circumstances and others probably feel the same way about th

Re: Packaging team best practice

2008-08-26 Thread Noah Slater
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 03:47:55PM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: > 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. I see, that's very

Re: Packaging team best practice

2008-08-26 Thread Sandro Tosi
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 diff

Re: Packaging team best practice

2008-08-26 Thread Norbert Preining
On Di, 26 Aug 2008, Noah Slater wrote: > 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. I disagree. Teams work differently and thus the Maintainer/Upl

Packaging team best practice

2008-08-26 Thread Noah Slater
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 i