On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 04:59:41PM -0700, Robin Rowe wrote: > Thanks, I appreciate your offer and am considering it. Just so I understand, > exactly what is your role with debian.org? Do you have access (that is, > passwords) to the server to install patches?
Well, I am one of the "webmasters". We generally don't have sysadmin access to the computer, but we can tell our admins to install a new package that we provide, or anything else that requires this. I assure you, getting the change to go live is the least of our worries, developing the apache patch is currently the showstopper problem. > Who are the debian.org webmasters? I couldn't find that information on > debian.org. It seems quite anonymous. Why is that? Where's the org chart? http://www.debian.org/intro/organization Under "Web pages", you'll see the names of the people who are at our webmaster@ alias, which mostly coincides with the list of people who are allowed to directly tamper with the web site. :) Many, many more are allowed to commit changes to the CVS tree, which in turn ends up on the web. > P.S. Not to be skeptical, it is amazing that it is "implied" Debian will > (promptly?) install and test any patch offered. Many programmers create > patches for the Linux kernel and other things that take years to get > installed and tested. Well, from what I hear, that's optional features like a better scheduler or better filesystems. A fix for this problem, which affects a considerable percentage of our user base is far from optional... -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.
