On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 03:41:31AM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > For Debian we currently do not have a formal way of ensuring critical > packages in hands which do not do too much wrong. There are only two social > points which work quite well: > a) responsible base system maintainers wont give their packages away to > people they dont trust > b) if a package annoys too much users/developers it is getting harsh critics > (remebered back when perl was one of those candidates?). > Actually I think there are not much packages which where "forced" away (at > least I know none which was decided by RM or DPL), so this is a good sign > and perhapos an Indication that we do not need a more formal way to punish > DDs. I agree that punishing DDs is *not* the answer. Instead, we should do more to encourage collaborative maintenance of difficult or important packages. We have the infrastructure in place now (PTS, Uploaders: field), we just need more maintainers to come around to working together this way. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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