Re: Developer Status
Hi Luk,
2008/10/23 Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>:
> Raphael Geissert wrote:
>>
>> Right, but do the members of the NMC cover the wide variety of
>> programming languages?
>> or what kind of review are they going to do? just packaging stuff? if
>> it is just the latter it would be much easier and faster to send a RFC
>> to -mentors and let people scream out loud.
>>
>> And please note that I said "QA side", with which I didn't mean to
>> refer to the QA group, but to a variety of people who know what to
>> look at and how to do it; not a random AM who happens to have already
>> completed doing a review process successfully (which actually doesn't
>> guarantee that the AM is competent enough, as the usual NM process
>> consists on sending the templates and later reviewing the responses).
First of all I would like to apologise as it was not my intention to
* offend/criticise anyone's work,
* mean that NM is all about questions, as it of course isn't.
I believe that impression was caused by my oversimplification of the NM process.
>
> You're very wrong here. The AM's job is to review if someone would be
> capable of being a good Debian Developer. Reviewing responses to the
> templates is *not* the main job. Have the prospective DD learn things;
> get the prospective DD think and search before answering; and reviewing
> actual tasks and skills by reviewing the prospective DD's packages next
> to possible other 'tasks' takes most of the time.
>
> It's not at all about a questionaire where you only have to tick the
> right answers because that would defeat the spirit of the process. For
> many applicants it takes a long time because they think it's just a
> questionaire...
Getting a little bit back on my point: what I wanted to mean with my
explanation of "QA side" is that:
* nobody is perfect,
* not always packages are checked as rigorous as they, at times, are at -mentors
So, my proposal is more or less like this:
1.- Keep everything in public MLs
2.- Assign a member of the NMC to the "case"[1] who will of course be
willing to work on it
3.- Publicly request[2] people to review the package[3], although the
NMC member will also do it on her own.
4.- Every review should be handled[4] by the NMC member and a decision
be made (also refer to [1]).
And as an extra note: any NMC member should be able to take over the
request at any time in cases such as when the review/process is not
objective (i.e. there are personal feelings).
[1] This member will take care of the case/request and will write a
brief, but explanatory, report when making a decision.
[2] Teams, co-maintainers, etc should probably be CCed.
[3] No review should be disregarded, no matter whether it comes from a
D<something> or from a D<nothing> as any input should be considered
valuable.
[4] Any extra investigation needed originated by a contributed review
should be made before any decision is made.
Does that sound better? comments? suggestions? positive criticism?
Although I'm not still very convinced I at least want to propose
something that, if approved, would make me happier than the
originally-proposed process.
>
> Cheers
>
> Luk
>
Cheers,
--
Raphael Geissert - Debian Maintainer
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