Re: madison
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 02:17:03AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Anthony Towns wrote:
>
> > The sponsor is, as far as Debian is concerned. S/He's the one we trust to
> > ensure that upload doesn't contain trojans, and the one we can actually
> > identify if we have any need to.
> >
> > Sponsorship is a gaping hole in our trust model.
>
> Maybe sponsored packages go into a separate dist/, not sid/, but maybe
> sponsors/? Oh, and we need to make absolutely sure no sponsored packages ever
> get into testing.
Which means that no sponsored package will *ever* make it to stable.
Fantastic.
If you're going to drop sponsorship, then you need to change NM. Radically.
Really.
Otherwise, what's the incentive? I mean, "wait 6 months and it might get
in". I know that there are people who are long-term NMs (as in, being held
there, and no, I'm not complaining about my situation), or have been
rejected, who are still obscenely capable maintainers.
Seriously, don't.
--
Daniel Stone <daniel@sfarc.net>
<Nuke> "can NE1 help me aim nuclear weaponz????? /MSG ME!!"
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