On 27/01/08 at 23:00 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 07:31:02PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 09:31:32AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > > In the ruby-extras team, we use: > > > > Maintainer: the team member "mainly" responsible for the package > > > > Uploaders: the team mailing list, and the other team members who keep a > > > > look on the package. > > > > > > > > And I think that makes perfect sense ;) > > > > > > It does ? How a mailing list can upload package ? It seems you are using > > > a functional field for documentation purpose. > > > > I'm sorry, Uploaders has no "function" except when combined with > > DM-Upload-Allowed. One can perfectly upload a package without being in the > > Uploaders in the default case. > > Not true, Uploaders is used by the archive software to determine whether an > upload is an NMU or not, and whether bugs Closes:ed in the changelog should > be marked as closed or marked as 'fixed in NMU' in the BTS. That is > actually its raison d'ĂȘtre.
... which only applies to packages uploaded with a Changed-By pointing at the team. Most teams don't do that. The main use of mailing-list-in-Uploaders is to be able to list all packages (co-)maintained by the team, on DDPO, in dd-list, etc. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]