On Fri, 2022-04-15 at 14:24 +0200, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > > > I think this will also improve newcomer's contributing experience. > > This proposal is also filed at > > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/grow-your-ideas/-/issues/34 > > What about doing something even simpler - rather than having additional > generic/core tags/teams/groups, for packages where one wants to say > "please help yourself/ourselves", simply set the Maintainer field to > debian-devel@lists.debian.org, have the Salsa repository in the debian/ > namespace, and that's it? From thereon, anyone can do team-uploads by > pushing to salsa and uploading directly, no need for > acks/delays/permissions/requests. >
A simpler solution sounds good to me, except that change would be somewhat "permanent" in stating the original maintainer's preference. I forgot to mention in my original post that the tags can optionally expire. So, things like, `tag all my packages as "feel free to nmu" within the next two weeks` would be trackable. BTW, setting debian-devel@ as maintainer will result in mail flood. An alternative should be considered.