The Debian Maintainers GR

2007-07-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Hi The following is basically what I wrote in my blog a few minutes ago, but IMO should also be on -vote, as thats the place where vote stuff is handled, and noone can expect people to read blogs or planet... The DM GR = So, let's join the postings about the currently running Debian mai

Re: On the "Debian Maintainers" GR

2007-07-27 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 08:48:26PM +0200, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: > Essentially the proposal allows non-DD maintainers (we have 900+, see the > thread starting at [1] for details) to upload their own packages IF AND > ONLY IF their sponsor has indicated agreement with that by having add

Re: On the "Debian Maintainers" GR

2007-07-27 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Friday 27 July 2007, Bart Martens wrote: > I agree that some non-DD's simply deserve upload rights. I also agree > that some of those non-DD's waste time asking around for an upload. But > I also think that the Debian Project must be very careful with selecting > the people with upload rights,

Re: On the "Debian Maintainers" GR

2007-07-27 Thread Bart Martens
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 16:24 +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 01:48:52PM +0200, Bart Martens wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 13:02 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > > > On Friday 27 July 2007 12:22, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > > > > As a subscriber to the debian-med list, I do not s

Re: On the "Debian Maintainers" GR

2007-07-27 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 01:48:52PM +0200, Bart Martens wrote: > On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 13:02 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > > On Friday 27 July 2007 12:22, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > > > As a subscriber to the debian-med list, I do not share your view of this. > > [...] > > > I therefore do not agree t

Re: On the "Debian Maintainers" GR

2007-07-27 Thread Bart Martens
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 13:02 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Friday 27 July 2007 12:22, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > > As a subscriber to the debian-med list, I do not share your view of this. > [...] > > I therefore do not agree that your example is a valid one - rather, I think > > teams/groups like

Re: On the "Debian Maintainers" GR

2007-07-27 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:54:24 +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > I don't see a contradiction here; on the contrary I can imagine that > > DMs take some work off the shoulders of DDs in teams. > In teams, commit rights to the repository are enough for that. So, what > is the point? (Again, from my exp

Re: On the "Debian Maintainers" GR

2007-07-27 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 27 July 2007 12:22, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > As a subscriber to the debian-med list, I do not share your view of this. [...] > I therefore do not agree that your example is a valid one - rather, I think > teams/groups like debian-med are an excellent way to combine work of DD's > and

Re: On the "Debian Maintainers" GR

2007-07-27 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Friday 27 July 2007 06:40, Charles Plessy wrote: > The Debian-Med project is in a growing phase that requires the gathering > of programs and utilities which are easy to package and maintain, and > which we keep in a common SVN repository. > > Needless to say, I would be very happy to see this G

Re: On the "Debian Maintainers" GR

2007-07-27 Thread Andreas Barth
* gregor herrmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070726 21:49]: > On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:40:29 +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > This is exactly what I don't like in the proposal. I think I already > > said that, but DM is about pet packages, while Debian as a whole is > > advocating Team work, Alioth,

Re: On the "Debian Maintainers" GR

2007-07-27 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 11:00:14PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > I agree as well, but it's all that we require DDs to subscribe to. > > [That said, we really should work to make d-d-a enough; decisions that > > and transitions that affect multiple pack