]] Stefano Zacchiroli > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 04:48:17PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > > That seems like a good idea, if we're in agreement that the point of > > DM is to be a bridge status whilst someone works through NM. I think > > that was the intention and presume it still is. > > I disagree that it is always the case. It might be a popular option (due > to the fact that we highly encourage NMs to go through DM first). BUt > there are many cases, at least according to my anecdotal evidence, of > people who are more than happy remaining DM. I don't think we should > make their life more miserable by ensuring they have to periodically > re-ask for the permission to upload.
Then make it contigent on the person having made an upload in the last three months or something sensible. Also, I don't think asking a DM to be reapproved yearly or every other year would be that onerous. (It's also the direction we're moving in for shell accounts on d.o as you know; people who don't use them will have to go through changes@db to reactivate their shell access.) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87k3zdy74l....@xoog.err.no
