Many of our lookup interfaces don't give out a clear indication of the status of the person you are looking up. Eg db.debian.org contains DMs and DDs and the public lookup doesn't distinguish. www.debian.org/devel/people lists maintainers, DMs and DDs without distinction. (This is contrary to the information on https://wiki.debian.org/DebianDeveloper.)
AFAICT there are two ways right now to find out whether someone is a DD from primary sources[1]: * Install debian-keyring from sid and hope that it is up to date enough. This is a 51Mby download. It involves having a sid chroot, or messing about downloading the .deb by hand. * Log into the ftpmaster mirror and ask whatever dak asks. (I haven't actually checked whether this is in the dak database proper and if so where, but presumably it is somewhere accessible to dak.) This is accessible to DDs only and obviously not a documented interface. We have this list of DMs: https://ftp-master.debian.org/dm.txt linked to from here: https://ftp-master.debian.org/ Could/should we have an equivalent list of DDs published alongside the list of DMs ? If this seems like a good idea I will file a bug asking for it. Thanks, Ian. [1] I'm told that looking at db.d.o ldapsearch can help if you then see whether the user has `gidNumber=800' or perhaps whether the user has `objectClass=debianDeveloper' but there are rumours that the latter is misleading. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/21566.32351.180763.700...@chiark.greenend.org.uk
