On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 02:28:59PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > >> Q3. What should be our definition of "official services"? > > Even if this is highly preferable, I don't think that official services > > (.d.o services) should necessarily be running on Debian hardware managed > > by DSA, provided that: > > - the service is clearly useful and used > > - the service has a sustainable maintainance model (active team + > > instructions on how to contribute, run a local copy, etc. + DFSG-free) > > - the service's design does not raise security or scalability concerns > > I disagree on that, official services should run under project > overview. So far that the project can take it over and move it, should > all of the team go away. Active team today doesn't mean they are there > tomorrow to properly hand it over. Having the project itself have > access (via DSA at least) ensures it can continue.
I very much agree with Joerg on this. A team like DSA offers to the Debian Project two key features. One, which is the most visible one, is the technical output and continued service of a team of talented sysadmins. The other is the governance guarantee that we, as a project, can always take over the maintenance of a service whose current maintainers go MIA or become unwilling to work with the rest of the project for any reason. As Joerg points out. I understand that we can come up with a list of requirements that diminish the risk. This is, I believe, what Lucas was trying to do with the requirements quoted above. But I think it is much better to centralize those requirements on a single, DPL-delegated team, than trying to replicate that to many different, de facto self-proclaimed teams. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Former Debian Project Leader . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »
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