Re: Maintainership, vanishing or absent maintainers (QA)

1999-03-31 Thread Davide G. M. Salvetti
* WA => Wichert Akkerman WA> If any random user does this things get messy which is the last WA> thing that should happen. I think the right thing would be any random developer who feel inclined to do a patched deb ASAP, should to it, put it in some available place on the net, and drop a note

Re: Maintainership, vanishing or absent maintainers (QA)

1999-03-30 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Marco d'Itri wrote: > >- critical security fix:2 days. > I think those fixes should be uploaded as fast as possible by anyone > willing, if a remote root exploit for some package like apache or ssh > is published users can't just shut down their machines for two days if > th

Re: [joey: Maintainership, vanishing or absent maintainers (QA)]

1999-03-30 Thread Josip Rodin
Hi, Thanks for sending me this. Here are some additions that I think you'll find useful. Also, you're welcome to submit this to the Policy list. Either way, I second the proposal. On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 07:16:57PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > * Orphaned packages: > Bugfix

Re: Maintainership, vanishing or absent maintainers (QA)

1999-03-30 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 08:18:23PM -0500, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 03:32:12PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > On Mar 28, Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > - critical security fix:2 days. > > I think those fixes should be uploaded as fast as possible

Re: Maintainership, vanishing or absent maintainers (QA)

1999-03-30 Thread Zephaniah E. Hull
On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 03:32:12PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Mar 28, Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >- critical security fix:2 days. > I think those fixes should be uploaded as fast as possible by anyone > willing, if a remote root exploit for some package like a

Re: Maintainership, vanishing or absent maintainers (QA)

1999-03-29 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 28, Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - critical security fix:2 days. I think those fixes should be uploaded as fast as possible by anyone willing, if a remote root exploit for some package like apache or ssh is published users can't just shut down their machines fo

Re: Maintainership, vanishing or absent maintainers (QA)

1999-03-29 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Darren O. Benham wrote: > On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 05:21:55PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > Eh? You can't be a Debian developer without an account on master, if Lars > Sure you can. Lars is. Ah, let us be a little more clear here. If we move to using a central directory

Re: Maintainership, vanishing or absent maintainers (QA)

1999-03-29 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 05:21:55PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > Eh? You can't be a Debian developer without an account on master, if Lars Sure you can. Lars is. > How are you going to do it any other way, the only thing every maintainer > has to do is access the machines, some people never upl

Re: Maintainership, vanishing or absent maintainers (QA)

1999-03-29 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Darren O. Benham wrote: > > I *hate* expiring passwords! > > There is another problem: not all developers have an account on master. > (simple example: Lars Wirzenius). > > Can't we do this in the LDAP database? Eh? You can't be a Debia

Re: Maintainership, vanishing or absent maintainers (QA)

1999-03-29 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Darren O. Benham wrote: > I *hate* expiring passwords! There is another problem: not all developers have an account on master. (simple example: Lars Wirzenius). Can't we do this in the LDAP database? Wichert. -- ===

Re: Maintainership, vanishing or absent maintainers (QA)

1999-03-29 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 02:47:37PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > I am hoping to get a mechanism to detect absent maintainers as we move to > having our maintainer database in a directory. My current thought is to > just turn on shadow password aging, you have to set your password once a > year or

Re: Maintainership, vanishing or absent maintainers (QA)

1999-03-28 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
Just as an aside, I am hoping to get a mechanism to detect absent maintainers as we move to having our maintainer database in a directory. My current thought is to just turn on shadow password aging, you have to set your password once a year or you can't upload packages, vote etc. After your acco

Re: Maintainership, vanishing or absent maintainers (QA)

1999-03-28 Thread Martin Schulze
John Lapeyre wrote: > *Martin Schulze wrote: > > I'm trying to revive Debian QA. With the growing number of new > > maintainers showing interst in general QA for Debian it seems useful > > that one of the 'old' maintainers shows direction. > Longer descriptions of charters for the mailing lists w

Re: Maintainership, vanishing or absent maintainers (QA)

1999-03-28 Thread John Lapeyre
*Martin Schulze wrote: > I'm trying to revive Debian QA. With the growing number of new > maintainers showing interst in general QA for Debian it seems useful > that one of the 'old' maintainers shows direction. Longer descriptions of charters for the mailing lists would be nice. In the archives,

Re: Maintainership, vanishing or absent maintainers (QA)

1999-03-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 09:55:16PM +0200, Martin Schulze écrivait: > The following is extracted from a text Vincent Renardias wrote in > February 1997. I'm not modifying it in order to be able to discuss it > properly. Please keep in mind that parts of it may be out dated by > now. OK, i'm all f

Maintainership, vanishing or absent maintainers (QA)

1999-03-28 Thread Martin Schulze
I'm trying to revive Debian QA. With the growing number of new maintainers showing interst in general QA for Debian it seems useful that one of the 'old' maintainers shows direction. However if it works and we have a working QA team we need to discuss ways the QA team is allowed to upload package