On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 11:08 PM Sergio Durigan Junior <sergi...@debian.org> wrote: > > On Sunday, January 17 2021, Utkarsh Gupta wrote: > > > For nm.debian.org, at 2021-01-17: > > I support Tong Sun <suntong...@users.sourceforge.net>'s request to become > > Debian Developer, uploading. > > I have worked with Tong Sun on a couple of golang packages for a couple of > > months now and I would > > like him to be able to upload packages on his own. > > Hi Utkarsh, Tong, > > It seems to me, judging from outside (and without having actually seeing > the work you've done) that you don't have too much experience working > together. This can be problematic, especially if the work was done in > private and in the context of a team collaboration, for example.
Thanks for the positive criticism. May I know what is the problem with/when the work was done in private please? And also what would the problem be in the context of a team collaboration. That indeed has been the case for most/all of the go packages that I worked with Utkarsh. > > Tong has been a Debian user since before I wasn't even born :) and has been > > a DM since 2018! > > I believe making him a DD would be a net-win overall and would also help in > > him helping others! \o/ > > > > I have personally worked with Tong Sun <suntong...@users.sourceforge.net> > > (key A77985AD72B4CA08D8C5BF79885FDAB331FED834) > > for a couple of months now and I know Tong Sun can be trusted to be a full > > member of Debian, and have unsupervised, > > unrestricted upload rights, right now. > > I really appreciate the work Tong (and all the volunteers, for that > matter) do for Debian, and I hope he will take this as a positive > criticism, but I disagree with Utkarsh here. I think Tong would benefit > from more experience with packaging, bug fixing, and other related work, > before applying to become a Debian Developer. > > I understand the desire to strengthen your ties to the project, and I > strongly believe that everybody should be aiming to do that, but I also > believe that this is a process that takes its own time. Sometimes we > need more practice in order to make sure that we will do a good job when > the access to the whole archive is granted to us, and that is absolutely > fine. > > I would like to finish by saying again that I really hope Tong does not > take this message as a discouragement, because it is not. Please, keep > up with your work and the experience will come naturally. > > Thank you, > > -- > Sergio > GPG key ID: 237A 54B1 0287 28BF 00EF 31F4 D0EB 7628 65FC 5E36 > Please send encrypted e-mail if possible > https://sergiodj.net/
