Re: maintainer policy and project organization

1998-02-04 Thread Martin Schulze
On Thu, Feb 05, 1998 at 12:20:28AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I agree with most of what Christian said. As a corollary, I > > would like to add to policy that @debian.org be a working > > email address. > And more, can we put in the design also the > @packages.debian.org address?

Re: maintainer policy and project organization

1998-02-04 Thread fpolacco
On Wed, Feb 04, 1998 at 10:20:22AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > > I agree with most of what Christian said. As a corollary, I > would like to add to policy that @debian.org be a working > email address. > meetoo And more, can we put in the design also the @packages.debian.org

Re: maintainer policy and project organization

1998-02-04 Thread G John Lapeyre
On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Christian Schwarz wrote: > I doubt that we ever had this stituation in the past), then one of these > developers has to `coordinate' all changes done to that package. This > person has to be clearly marked as `coordinator' at some place, for > example in the `Maintainer:' field

Re: maintainer policy and project organization

1998-02-04 Thread Martin Schulze
On Wed, Feb 04, 1998 at 10:20:22AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > > I agree with most of what Christian said. As a corollary, I > would like to add to policy that @debian.org be a working > email address. Seconded. All new maintainer get such a valid address because I create that

Re: maintainer policy and project organization

1998-02-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I agree with most of what Christian said. As a corollary, I would like to add to policy that @debian.org be a working email address. All it needs is a simple one line .qmail file on master, and it is a convenient means of contacting the maintainer, and is far easier than t

maintainer policy and project organization

1998-02-04 Thread Christian Schwarz
We have about 250 maintainers and more than 1200 source packages. Both numbers are increasing at a very high speed, i.e., the project is growing very fast. Everyone who has some knowledge about how large `organizations' work will agree that a continuous growth of any organization is very dangerous

Re: Christian Schwarz

1998-02-04 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Ian Jackson wrote: > Christian Schwarz: > > Well, first of all current policy says ``Every package must have > > exactly one maintainer at a time.'' (see section 2.3.2 The maintainer > > of a package). So this is the case. Whether it `should' be the case > > needs to be discus

Re: beta software ok for unstable? (was: Re: policy Q's WRT imapd)

1998-02-04 Thread Guy Maor
G John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Where can I put a package that is not dangerous, and is > functional, but is still in early stages of development? I imagine it > might detract a bit from the rest of the stable distribution, and yet > there are perhaps some who would like access

Re: PW#5-12: New upload procedure

1998-02-04 Thread Guy Maor
Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There are two reasons I can think of at the moment for putting the > parsing into dpkg-parsechangelog. Since Mike is planning to release a new dpkg very soon anyway, someone can just send him a patch and he'll include it. Guy

Re: Christian Schwarz

1998-02-04 Thread Ben Pfaff
> Furthermore, commas are no good because they're already a separator > for separate addresses in a single field. (Admittedly we already > allow a syntax like John F. Bloggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> which is not > permitted by RFC822.) Why? 'John F. Bloggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' s

Re: Christian Schwarz

1998-02-04 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
> Furthermore, commas are no good because they're already a separator > for separate addresses in a single field. (Admittedly we already > allow a syntax like John F. Bloggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> which is not > permitted by RFC822.) Why? 'John F. Bloggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' seems to be a valid