Maintainer fields for main/restricted

Trent Lloyd lathiat at bur.st
Tue Dec 12 02:07:49 GMT 2006


On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 07:49:37AM +0900, Trent Lloyd wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 01:46:22AM +1100, Adam Conrad wrote:
> > Colin Watson wrote:
> > > 
> > > Would ubuntu-devel-discuss now be a more appropriate setting for our
> > > Maintainer fields?
> > 
> > Hrm, a valid point, I suppose.  I'm happy to change the buildd side of
> > binary package mangling, if we reach some sort of consensus on this
> > issue, of course.
> > 
> > ubuntu-devel is "the place where core-dev hangs out", which makes it the
> > "correct" point of contact for main/restricted packages, but it's
> > equally valid, I suppose, to say that we really don't want random people
> > sending random problem reports about random packages to this list.
> > 
> > Anyone have strong opinions one way or the other?
> 
> Given that ubuntu-devel is apparently going to be moderated, I think it
> makes sense to move it to -discuss

(Also given the past history where once every month or two the moderated
queue is cleaned up, pointing it to -devel would be misleading)

<snip>

Trent



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