Le Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 07:55:43PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr écrivait: > I think we should try to implement that scheme at least for packages in > base and standard... but why not go ahead and try to do it for all > packages?
Yes, this is a long term thing to do ... it will be quite a logical step once we have everything, there's the support for it in katie and dpkg (at least there'll be shortly). The only thing that is missing and that is *required* is the integration with the BTS. There's several things that have to be done : - be able to subscribe other people to a package bug list (in this case the people listed in the Uploaders field), there should be some automation here, otherwise beeing in the Uploader field won't change anything as the backup maintainer won't know of any bug - when doing a "per maintainer" lookup (http://bugs.debian.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED] for example) the page should also list the bugs on package where I am an "Uploader", probably separated from my very own packages, or maybe just provide a BIG link to the page listing those ... - the Uploader should also be listed on "per package" page ... so that people may know who to contact when the main maintainer doesn't respond - then we need to update the <package>@packages.debian.org alias to list all maintainer (main and backup). > would get more attention and more bugs fixed. The BTS allows more > than one person to get bug reports for a specific package (through an > overwrite file) and in the future it will be possible to subscribe to > individual bugs. I'm eagerly waiting for this one ... :) as long as the subscription is not only per bug-report but also per source-package and per binary-package. > Debian is growing quite dramatically in size but I'd love to see more > manpower devoted to existing packages instead of (or in addition to) new > packages. /me too Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/ Le bouche à oreille du Net : http://www.beetell.com Naviguer sans se fatiguer à chercher : http://www.deenoo.com Formation Linux et logiciel libre : http://www.logidee.com