Re: [Debian account] I request your attention
I am well aware of the items you mention here. Some better than
others due to the what info is available to me. But I have been
using debian for quite a few years, and at least casually monitor-
ing this group for most of those years.
The reason this issue is so volitle (I think) is because of the
appearance of secrecy of this one step of the process. It is
also the step that _seems_ to be a bottleneck.
To someone on the outside looking in, and apparently to others, it
is not clear what happens at the DAM level. It would appear that
once someone gets to the DAM level that things should be fairly
routine. It would also appear that if something is not in order,
that it should be sent back to the AM or some other person rather
than just _stalling_ out.
>From my looking at the web pages, It appears that most of the
long delays come to the DAM via one or two AM's. Perhaps the
system needs a little fine tuning somewhere.
I do know that I can understand the frustration of the developer
who originated this round of discussions.
I hope you will all consider what I have to say, but at this
point I will bow out and leave it at that.
Paul
hertzog@debian.org (Raphael Hertzog) writes:
> Clearly wrong. The number of time I already read something like that is
> tremendous.
>
> But Debian is still here, and more active than it has never been. Debian
> is going its way, slowly but surely.
>
> And I trust James to do the right thing even if his lack of
> "transparency" is a bit disappointing from time to time.
>
> Have you counted how many official Debian developpers we are ? And how
> many we were last year ?
>
> Just FYI (the numbers are not precise but give an idea nevertheless
> knowing that some maintainers don't have any package) :
> $ apt-cache dumpavail | grep ^Maintainer: | sort | uniq | wc -l
> 895
>
> If you look (you can't of course, access is restricted to debian
> maintainers) in the account database on a debian.org machine, you'll see
> more than 950 accounts (some with special administrative purpose but still
> the number seems to match).
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