Re: debian-keyring, what's happened?
Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> writes:
> James, you should find someone else to help with keyring maintenance
> and accepting new people, AFAIK you're the only one doing all that
> stuff right now.
Gee... _thanks Josip_! I *never* could have worked that one out for
myself. I'm so glad you're around to tell me these completely
non-obvious things!
o) It's not just a matter of volunteering for help and like magic
useful volunteers appear. There's the problem that more often than
not, when it actually comes down to doing stuff the throngs of
volunteers seem to melt faster than butter on a hot cake. The
security team, the ftp team and the new new-maintainer team can all
relate stories of one or more volunteers who signed up and then did
absolutely nothing.
This a) clutters up the team with dead weight lessing the chances
of further volunteers, and b) wastes the time spent (if any) on
training them.
o) This is the keyring we're talking about, it's not like I can just
accept any developer who volunteers.
--
James
PS: Oh, and BTW, I'm _not_ the only one doing all the keyring stuff.
Brendan O'Dea in a startlingly out of fashion way, instead of
bitching and moaning, sat down and wrote (+maintains) the stuff
behind the keyring.debian.org keyserver. By doing this he single
handedly reduced the amount of work I have to do for trivial
updates and the amount of time people have to wait for them to be
processed.
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