Ideas about a GR to fix the DAM

2007-11-17 Thread Mario Iseli
Hello, on the #debian-newmaint there was just a (quite long) discussion started by Enrico Zini who had the idea to fix the DAM by adding 2, 3 more people via a GR. I think that this would be a good idea. There were also discussions about several (small) techincal problems, for example that if you

Re: Ideas about a GR to fix the DAM

2007-11-17 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 02:36:25PM +0100, Mario Iseli wrote: > on the #debian-newmaint there was just a (quite long) discussion started by > Enrico Zini who had the idea to fix the DAM by adding 2, 3 more people via a > GR. I > think that this would be a good idea. There were also discussions abou

Re: Ideas about a GR to fix the DAM

2007-11-17 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 06:48:56PM +, Anthony Towns wrote… > … quite a lot of things that I won't quote for brevity. I agree fully that a jetring-based (or anything alike) approach would be much appreciated. That would solve the fact that the debian-keyring package is horribly outdated and m

Re: Ideas about a GR to fix the DAM

2007-11-17 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 08:00:43PM +, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 06:48:56PM +, Anthony Towns wrote… > > … quite a lot of things that I won't quote for brevity. > > I agree fully that a jetring-based (or anything alike) approach would > be much appreciated. That woul

Re: Ideas about a GR to fix the DAM

2007-11-17 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 09:00:43PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Though, you skip a tiny little detail: how do you will make this real? > Not technically, I believe all those things you describe are technically > trivial. I mean socially. We have the current issue that: I don't think there's a

Re: Ideas about a GR to fix the DAM

2007-11-17 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-11-18 04:48]: > DAM (and FD, and AMs and nm.debian.org) is a policy position -- it's > about deciding who's allowed to do what, rather than a technical > position that involves keeping some software/hardware working; it's > very subjective and that's about

Re: Ideas about a GR to fix the DAM

2007-11-17 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 07:29:10AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > (As far as convincing James goes, jetring has the further problem > that it's a bunch of perl and shell scripts; and he's a dead-set python > addict these days -- but at least jetring's designed such that there's > nothing stopping us

Re: Ideas about a GR to fix the DAM

2007-11-17 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 08:29:52PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-11-18 04:48]: > > DAM (and FD, and AMs and nm.debian.org) is a policy position -- it's > > about deciding who's allowed to do what, rather than a technical > > position that involves keepin

Re: Ideas about a GR to fix the DAM

2007-11-17 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 09:29:10PM +, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 09:00:43PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > And at the time he was kind of right, [...], so he was > > rejecting the delays on the ???over-administrative-thing??? NM has > > become since he cr