This proposal has a lot of potiential to change Debian for the better, thanks a lot.
I had planned to work on the BTS IRC bot from #debian-devel-changes and enable it to forward stuff to more channels based on package name, but it sounds like this proposal obsoletes that bot too. I guess this proposal could also obsolete the low threshold NMU list: http://wiki.debian.org/LowThresholdNmu The DMUA mechanism currently depends on Maintainer/Uploaders, how do you see DEP-2 interacting with it? Personally I would very much like the DMUA mechanism go away and be replaced by something much more explicit (my initial thought was an OpenPGP-based mail bot). One thing that I have always wanted to see was better connections between Debian and our users. Would this also enable say these? * the QA team to notify users a package is about to be removed * the security team to notify users they need to update * package developers to ask people to test a new feature I wonder what kinds of commitments we might want people to document about packages, some thoughts: I use foo but could easily switch to something else. I use foo rarely but want it to be available when I do. I use foo often and it is an integral part of my workflow. I have access to commit upstream on foo. I am willing to triage bug reports on foo. I am willing to review VCS commits on foo. I am willing to fix only RC bugs on foo. I am willing to do usual package maintainence. I want to know when foo is updated in stable. I wonder if this discussion should be brought to debian-project/debian-devel, especially the maintainer/commitment stuff will be quite far reaching. As someone who has done a few PTS patches, I would welcome the technology changes you plan. I do worry that not using static HTML will reduce the performance though. The data export thing sounds a bit like DDE, by Enrico Zini: http://dde.debian.net/dde/ I wonder about the alioth FusionForge instance and how this will interact with it. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caktje6fl_qucn13hh3pyxpqdkrytyf3r0mlg_nxz1etcvzw...@mail.gmail.com
