Re: Let's be friends. (Non-maintainer uploads made easier)
On 24 Oct 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> I'd prefer to think we were all friends here in the project,
> without needing to formalize the process. What am I if I am not on a
> friends list, an enemy?
That's one good reason it perhaps shouldn't be called "friends"; too many
problems of connotation. I still think it's a good idea; it can serve as
an apprenticeship for up-and-coming developers, and it spreads the
responsibity around a bit. Being a "friend" wouldn't be a cookie, it
entails some modest duty to keeping the package sound, secure, and
up-to-date.
I'm not personally wedded to the "friends" field being in the dpkg control
file; if it's implementable on master for uploading purposes that's fine.
That may be a plus in fact, because it wouldn't make the "friends list"
quite so obvious, and thus might help to quell impressions of favoritism.
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