Team uploads

An upload made by a developer who is not listed in the source package's Maintainer and Uploader fields is called NonMaintainerUpload. These uploads follow specific conventions. For packages where the maintainer is a team reachable through a mailing list, all team members do not need to list themselves in the Uploader field.

It was proposed in 2009 to formalise "Team uploads" in analogy to the "QA uploads", as a special case of NMU, where most conventions are relaxed.

In 2010, a new discussion was started. It was proposed that team uploads are regular uploads whose first changelog entry is “ * Team upload.”, to be used when a developer is not listed in the Maintainer or Uploader field of a package, but member of the team that maintains it.

Implementation (in progress)