About DDs not maintaining packages

2010-07-02 Thread Ana Guerrero
Quoting a small paragraph of the loong email: On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 07:01:18PM +0200, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > > (There are more official Debian Developers in that city but they didn't > reply to the calls, and they do not maintain packages at least in some > cases, so

Re: On terminology

2010-07-02 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:14:03 +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > Nowadays, we're asking people to become Maintainers so that they can > become Debian Maintainers and *then* apply to the New Maintainer's > process so that they can become Debian Developers. And when their DD account is created they ge

Re: On terminology

2010-07-02 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 07/02/2010 11:14 PM, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> Which is true, and it would probably be a good idea to clarify wording >> that refers to Debian Members, since that's not the terminology that we >> use in general and, with the existence of DMs, it can be confusing. > Nowaday

On terminology

2010-07-02 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Russ Allbery wrote: > Which is true, and it would probably be a good idea to clarify wording > that refers to Debian Members, since that's not the terminology that we > use in general and, with the existence of DMs, it can be confusing. Nowadays, we're asking people to become Maintainers so that th

Re: Problems with NM Front Desk

2010-07-02 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
Hi, I have to reply briefly, I hope that you can infer the rest of the story from the replies or pointers. On Friday 02 July 2010 20:56:41 Russ Allbery wrote: > > and while creating new packages for newer versions of Aqsis [2] and K3D > > [3] before the freeze, which they were neglected by thei

Re: Problems with NM Front Desk

2010-07-02 Thread Russ Allbery
"Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" writes: > Precedents > == > After being unofficial co-maintainer for months of OpenSceneGraph [1] The way that the maintenance of that package is noted in the package control fields is strange. Recent non-NMU uploads appear to have been made by people wh

Problems with NM Front Desk

2010-07-02 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
Hello, I don't know if this is the proper place to speak about this, if so please tell me where I should send this. I saw the recent email "Conflicts between Developers: Let others mediate" in this mailing list so it gave me the idea to explain the issues here, and it's more a "Debian project"

Re: Conflicts between Developers: Let others mediate

2010-07-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 11:23:42AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > If you ever find yourself in a situtation where you are in conflict > with another developer, and you're unable to make headway, please rely > on others to mediate. > > You can contact the DPL (lea...@debian.org) or the CTTE (for tec