On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 12:12:00AM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> writes: > > On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 01:06:37PM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > > 2. Asks for too broad knowledge > > > > It has been suggested several times over the years that we ask too > > many questions of NM candidates. People want to do work for Debian, > > but not everybody needs to know the gory details of library symbol > > versioning (for example) if their interests and skills lie in > > translation. So far, our organisation has been tailored for a group of > > package maintainers, _not_ translators or sysadmins or artists or ... > > Actually, we have special NM templates for people who are interested in > working on documentation and translation. > > But this leaves the problem if a translator or artist really needs to > have all rights a DDs has, including shells on Debian hosts, upload > permissions and other, potentially security-relevant stuff. Do we need > to hand out real accounts to people who don't need them, or should we > add new titles to allow them to identify with Debian ("Debian > Translator", for example)? And give them voting privileges, of course after they did some significant work for Debian and proper ID and maybe P&P checks. IMO we should separate the security relevant stuff that needs thorough technical skills from the other DD privileges. Gaudenz -- Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ~ Samuel Beckett ~
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