[No mail copies, please] Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> On 23/10/08 at 12:05 -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: >> Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >> >> > On 22/10/08 at 23:33 +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: >> > >> >> and keyring managers >> >> would like to remain the authoritative source for "who is in Debian". >> > >> > Indeed, that's a problem. What about changing the DM process so that >> > keyring managers are responsible for this keyring as well? >> >> That's what he said: > > What I meant was: What about *simply* changing the DM process so that > keyring managers are responsible for this keyring as well, and dropping > all the other changes in Joerg's mail? Oh, ok. > >> > Changes to the DM Keyring >> > ------------------------- >> > Keyring management will be moved to the control of keyring-maint. The >> > NM committee will decide who will be added or removed, similiar to the >> > way keyring-maint and DAM currently work together. >> >> [...] >> >> They are allowed to upload their own (source) package. The allowed list >> >> of (source) packages to upload can be edited by any member of the NM >> >> committee[NMC], who will do a package check before they add new packages >> >> to the DM's list. >> > >> > There's a problem with DM currently: it doesn't work well with massively >> > comaintained packages. For example, if you have: >> > - a team with DMs DMa and DMb >> > - DMa became DM to maintain Pa >> > - DMb became DM to maintain Pb >> > - DMa wants to help with the maintainance of Pb, but should not be given >> > upload rights for Pb >> > - DMb wants to help with the maintainance of Pa, but should not be given >> > upload rights for Pa >> >> That's not a problem which should be solved by a technical "workaround". If >> you are not confident enough that either DMa won't upload Pb or DMb won't >> upload Pa then why are you giving her/him rights to change anything in either >> Pa or Pb? > > DM was sold as a "limited upload rights" solution. I think that > some people did not realize that it wasn't that simple: some people > might have the right to upload stuff "by mistake" because of this design > flaw. > >> It's like if you wanted to limit what packages DDs can upload and which not. > > Aren't we talking about DM? Yes, we are; it was just a way to say that the idea of over limiting what packages can be uploaded is nonsense. Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Maintainer www.debian.org - get.debian.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
