It is sometimes claimed that the strong ownership of packages by their maintainers is detrimental to Debian's progress in cases when a maintainer can't, for whatever reason, fix a problem speedily. The NMU procedure takes a long time, at least about two weeks, depending on the value of "some".
The maintainers and maintainer groups listed below declare that their packages (all, or the ones listed specifically below) may be fixed and uploaded without delay, at any time, as long as the NMU procedure in the Debian Developer's Reference is otherwise followed. You don't need to contact the maintainers beforehand, and you don't need to use a delayed upload queue. If the package maintainer or maintainer group is active, it is polite to let them have a stab at fixing the problem first.
Every change should be to fix a reported bug. Changes should not be frivolous. For example, don't change from debhelper to cdbs just because you prefer it that way; if you really want to make such big changes to the package, talk with the maintainer or maintainer group first, and maybe offer to adopt the package.
This list is utterly and totally opt-in. The above relaxation of time limits does not apply to anyone else's packages.
The majority of records in this page is written in a (pseudo) machine-friendly markup, following this rule:
- - as field separator
- first field: Developer Name
- second field: packages under NMU lowthreshold, (all packages) for all
- other fields: additional optional info, one per field, like:
- Comaintainers welcome
except: <package [motivations]>
check: <package [motivations]>
comment: <freeform comment>
An «except» field means that <package> is excluded from this lowthreshold list because of <motivations>.
A «check» field means that before NMUing <package> you should get in touch and check with original maintainer because special <motivations> apply.
A «comment» field contains general information regarding all the packages of that DD.
N.B. Sometimes groups of packages were specified in a more complex human-like form. I've marked them with a prepended "ie." label, as I haven't yet found a proper solution. A common example is: "except: ie. comaintained [by the FOO team]".
Groups
Debian Perl Group - (all packages) - please use the SVN repository (docs)
Debian GSS Team - (all packages)
Debian Shishi Team - (all packages)
Individual Maintainers
Please keep the alphabetical according to first and last name.
The PTS fetches all email adresses in links to http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=, and displays a link to this page next to the Maintainer name. Please add such a link to your entry.
Aaron M. Ucko - (all packages)
?Adam Borowski - (all packages)
?Alexander Reichle-Schmehl - (all packages)
?Adrian Bridgett - (all packages)
Amaya Rodrigo Sastre - (all packages) - except: ie. Co-maintained - Comaintainers welcome
Andreas Barth - (all packages) - except: libapache-mod-dav - check: mgetty please ask first - check: netpbm-free please make sure you don't do copyright violations as upstream is a bit lazy - check: dpkg-sig that's HE's domain - Comaintainers welcome
?Andres Mejia - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
Andrew Pollock - (all packages) Comment: please don't NMU out of the blue, I hate surprises
?Angus Lees - (all packages)
Ari Pollak - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
Arnaud Cornet - (all packages)
Axel Beckert - (all packages) - except: slash (package needs a big revamp anyway) - except: ie. Co-maintained - Comaintainers welcome
?Barak Pearlmutter - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
Baruch Even - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
Bayle Florent - (all packages)
Ben Armstrong - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
Ben Hutchings - (all packages) - except ie. Co-maintained - comment: see here and here
Ben Pfaff - (all packages) - except: autoconf - except: autoconf2.13
Bernd Zeimetz - (all packages, all packages) - except: Co-maintained packages
Brice Goglin - (all packages) - except: Co-maintained packages
Carsten Hey - (all packages) - except: Co-maintained packages - check: deborphan
Chris Butler - (all packages)
Christian Aichinger - (all packages)
Christian Perrier - all packages - except: Co-maintained
Christoph Berg - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
Christopher Cramer - (all packages)
?Christine Spang - (all packages) - except: Team-maintained
Clément Stenac - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
Colin Watson - (all packages) - except: base-passwd - Comaintainers welcome - check: base-passwd comaintainers are welcome
CristianGreco - (all packages) - except: Co-maintained packages
Daniel Burrows - (all packages)
Daniel Leidert - (all packages) - except: ie. Co-maintained by debichem team - comment: read my blog
Daniel Ruoso - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
David Nusinow - (all packages) - except: ie. Co-maintained by the XStrikeForce - except: ie. comaintained by libruby-extras team
?Decklin Foster - (all packages)
Denis Barbier - (all packages) - comment: check packages where I am listed as Maintainer - Comaintainers welcome
Don Armstrong - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
EddyPetrisor - aspell-ro and any package without co-maintainers - even new upstream versions are ok (contact me before such an upload), Co-maintainers welcome
Eduard Bloch - (all packages) - except: ie. on strategic upstream issues where I am (defacto) upstream of a package - Comantainers welcome
Emanuele Rocca - (all packages) - except: ie. Co-maintained by the Debian Xfce Group
?Emilio Pozuelo Monfort - (all packages) - except: Co-maintained.
Enrico Tassi - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
Enrico Zini - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
Erich Schubert - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
?Fabio Tranchitella - (all packages) - comment: check with comaintainers where appropriate - Comaintainers welcome
Falk Hueffner - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
Filippo Giunchedi - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
Florian Ernst - (all packages) - comment: check packages where I am listed as Maintainer - Comaintainers welcome
Francesco Namuri - (all packages)
Franz Pletz - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
?Ganesan Rajagopal - (all packages)
Gaudenz Steinlin - (all packages - comment: advance notices for me to comment welcome - Comaintainers welcome
Geert Stappers - (all packages)
George Danchev - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
?Gonéri Le Bouder - (all packages)
Gregor Herrmann - (all packages - comment: Please give me 24 hours and check with co-maintainers.
Guido Guenther - (all packages - comment: advance notices for me to comment welcome - Comaintainers welcome
Guilherme de S. Pastore - (all packages)
Gustavo Franco - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
Gustavo Noronha Silva - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
?Christian Hammers - (all packages) - except: mysql - except: quagga - Comaintainers welcome for all
Helge Kreutzmann - (all packages)
Holger Levsen - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
?Ivan Kohler - (all packages - comment: check packages where I am listed as Maintainer - Comaintainers welcome
Jaldhar H. Vyas - (all packages) - except: dovecot
James Westby - (all packages - except: co-maintained - Co-maintainers welcome
Jamin W. Collins - (all packages) - Co-maintainers welcome
?Jan Lübbe - (all packages) - except: bitbake
Jan Nordholz - (all packages) - except: ebtables already co-maintained
Jari Aalto - (all packages) - except: co-maintained - Co-maintainers welcome - comment: please prefer working through the collab-maint Git repositories where you can find the packages
Jeff Bailey - (all packages, all packages, all packages) - except: glibc - Comaintainers welcome
?Jeremie Corbier - (all packages)
?Jérémy Bobbio - (all packages) - comment: please note that most of them are already team maintained
Joachim Reichel - (all packages)
?Jochen Friedrich - (all packages) - except: net-snmp already team maintained. Comaintainers welcome.
Joe Wreschnig - (all packages)
Jonas Smedegaard - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome - comment: please change from anything to cdbs!
Joost van Baal - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
Jordi Mallach - (all packages) - comment: Co-maintained for GNOME ask on #gnome-debian@?GimpNet or debian-gtk-gnome@lists.d.o first.
Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo - (all packages) - comment: check with different teams before uploading a NMU of those packages hold by a team.
Joshua Kwan - (all packages) - comment: I'm super busy with school so NMU away. I'll pick up the pieces in the summer.
Josselin Mouette - (all packages) - except: python-support - comment: Co-maintained for GNOME ask on #gnome-debian@?GimpNet or debian-gtk-gnome@lists.d.o first
?Juan A. Diaz - (all packages)
?Kalle Kivimaa - (all packages)
?Karl Bartel - (all packages)
Kartik Mistry - (all packages, all packages) - ask for: Co-maintained packages
Kevin B. McCarty - (all packages) - check: cernlib - check: paw - check: geant321 - check: mclibs - check: mn-fit - comment: Cernlib-related please try to contact me first.
?Kyle McMartin - (all packages)
Lionel Elie Mamane - (all packages) - except: ie. Comaintained (consult with comaintainers first) - except: ie. exception to the exception: scsh* seem like they are co-maintained, but they are not, so they *DO* fall under LowThresholdNMU.
Loic Minier - (all packages) - except: Co-maintained
Luca Capello - (all packages) - comment: if possible please send darcs patches
Lucas Nussbaum - (all packages)
Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt - (all packages)
Marcus Better - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
Marco Presi (Zufus) - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome - check: python-scipy *please* watch out the (svn repository) - check: python-numpy *please* watch out the (svn repository)
Marco Rodrigues - (all packages)
Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva - (all packages)
Margarita Manterola - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
Mario Iseli - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
Martin F. Krafft - (all packages) - comment: check with comaintainers where approriate - Comaintainers welcome.
Mark Howard - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
Martin Meredith - (all packages)
Martin Pitt - (all packages - check: postgresql* please be extra conservative about them
Martin Wuertele - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
Martin Zobel-Helas - (all packages) - except: ed
Masayuki Hatta - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
Matej Vela - (all packages)
Matt Brubeck - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
Matt Kraai - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
Matthew Garrett - (all packages)
Michael Casadevall - (all packages) - except: Co-maintained packages comment: Comaintainers welcomes. Also see [here|http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=sonicmctails@gmail.com] for packages under my old email address. Please ping on IRC or send email beforehand.
Michael Hanke - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
?Michael Janssen - (all packages)
Michael Mende - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
Michael Tautschnig - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
Michal Čihař - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
Miguel Gea Milvaques - (all packages)
Mohammed Adnène Trojette - (all packages)
Moray Allan - (all packages)
Morten Hustveit - (all packages)
Moritz Muehlenhoff - (all packages)
Nathanael Nerode - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
Nelson A. de Oliveira - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
Nicolas Duboc - (all packages)
Nico Golde - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
?Niv Sardi - (all packages)
?Oleksandr Moskalenko - (all packages) - comment: Do try to contact me via IRC or email before uploading. - Comaintainers welcome
Ondřej Čertík - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
?Ondřej Surý - (all packages)
Osamu Aoki - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
Otavio Salvador - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
Patrick Schoenfeld - (all packages) - except: Co-maintained
Paul Wise - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
Per Olofsson - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
Peter Makholm - (all packages) - except debnest
?Petter Reinholdtsen - (all packages) - except: Co-maintained - Comaintainers welcome
Pierre Habouzit - (all packages) - except: ie. KDE packages - comment: for KDE ones, ask debian-qt-kde@lists.debian.org - Comaintainers welcome
Pierre Machard - (all packages)
Peter Van Eynde - (all packages) - comment: if possible please send darcs patches
?Philipp Hug - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
?Qingning Huo - (all packages)
Rafael Laboissiere - (all packages) - except: ie. Co-maintained packages - Comaintainers welcome
Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
Raphael Hertzog - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
?Recai Oktaş - (all packages)
?Reinhard Tartler - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
Ricardo Mones - (all packages) - except: ie. Co-maintained - Comaintainers welcome
?Richard Nelson - (all packages) -
Riku Voipio - (all packages) - except: ie. Co-maintained
Robert Jordens - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
Robert Lemmen - (all packages)
?Robert McQueen - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
Roberto C. Sanchez - (all packages) - except: ie. Co-maintained - comment: please file a bug including a diff with the source changes
Rodrigo Gallardo - (all packages)
Roger Leigh - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
Roger So - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
Roland Mas - (all packages) - comment: Please try to ping me on IRC or email beforehand - comaintainers welcome - check: gforge please refrain from touching the database maintenance code in gforge as it's somewhat fragile
Ross Burton - (all packages)
Rudy Godoy - (all packages) - except: ie. Co-maintained - Comaintainers welcome.
Russ Allbery - (all packages) - except: ie. Co-maintained - check: heads-up welcome so that I can comment
Sam Hocevar (Debian packages) - (all packages) - except: ie. Co-maintained - check: vlc - check: ffmpeg - check: yasm - comment: be careful with things that will cause utter retaliation if you break them more than needed
Santiago Ruano Rincón - (all packages) - except: ie. Co-maintained
?Simon Josefsson - (all packages)
Sebastian Dröge - (all packages) - except: Co-maintained
Siegfried-A. Gevatter - (all packages)
Søren Boll Overgaard - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
Stefan Fritsch - (all packages) - except: ie. Co-maintained
Stefan Potyra - (all packages)
Stefano Zacchiroli - (all packages - except: ie. Co-maintained
Steffen Joeris - (all packages) - except: debian-edu*
?Steinar H. Gunderson - (all packages) - except: pkgsync - except: amoeba - except: ie. the ones I'm also upstream for
Steve McIntyre - all packages - except: cvs - except: cdrtools - except: debian-cd - except: ie. Co-maintained - Comaintainers welcome
Steve M. Robbins - (all packages) - except: ie. Co-maintained - Comaintainers welcome
Sven Mueller - all packages - except co-maintained - Comaintainers welcome
Sylvain Le Gall - all packages - except: Co-maintained
?Sylvain Thénault - all packages
Ted Percival - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
Thijs Kinkhorst - (all packages)
Thom May - all packages - except: ie. Co-maintained
Thomas Girard - all packages - except: co-maintained - Co-maintainers welcome
Tobias Toedter - (all packages) - except: iso-codes - Comaintainers welcome
Todd Troxell - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
Tony Mancill - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome.
Torsten Werner - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
Victor Seva - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome
?Vince Mulhollon - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome - check: simh be careful to remove copyright violations from the upstream
Vincent Danjean - (all packages)
W. Borgert - (all packages) - co-maintainers welcome
William Pitcock - (all packages) - except: co-maintained - Comaintainers welcome
Wookey - (all packages) - comment: Yes, please fix my packages
Y Giridhar Appaji Nag - (all packages) - comment: As applicable, check with co-maintainers and commit the fixes to the package VCS - Co-maintainers are welcome.
Y Giridhar Appaji Nag - (all packages) - comment: As applicable, check with co-maintainers and commit the fixes to the package VCS - Co-maintainers are welcome.
(Reminder: Please keep the alphabetical according to first and last name.)