Re: [followup question] Career path for non-maintainer DD's

[Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.iki.fi>]

to, 2005-03-17 kello 10:00 +0000, Helen Faulkner kirjoitti:
> What use do developers have for the right to vote?  Surely if you can 
> say that someone spending hours translating stuff for Debian doesn't 
> need to vote you can just as easily say that someone spending hours 
> maintaining packages doesn't need to vote either.

I think it would be fairly reasonable to let translators, documenters,
and other people who do good for work Debian, become Debian developers,
but only have those who pass a "packaging skills exam" (like T&S is
mostly now) have upload priviledges. This would require having two
keyrings: one for all DDs, and a subset for those who are allowed to
upload as well. I doubt this would be too tedious to maintain, though I
might be wrong, since I'm not familiar with the details.