How does a package become orphaned? (was Re: Attn maintainer: python-paramiko)

[Achim Gratz]

Jon Turney writes:
> The current upload policy is:
> - Only the maintainer for a package maintainer is allowed to upload
>   that package.
> - If a package is orphaned (has no maintainer), there are some
>   "trusted" maintainers who are allowed to upload it.
>
> I'm kind of inclined to relax that a bit, although I'm not sure what to.

Given that any maintainer can push to the playground branch, we could
either use that directly for someone(tm) to merge that branch into main
and thus trigger the publishing / upload or create a separate NMU branch
for the same purpose.


Regards,
Achim.
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