Re: MIA, Incompetent and holiday-loving maintainers (was: Request for NMUs.)
On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 00:22:16 +0100, Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org>
wrote:
>* David Palmer. (david@weavers-web.org) [040105 00:10]:
>> On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 22:42:27 +0100
>> Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> wrote:
>> > * Martin Michlmayr (tbm@cyrius.com) [040104 21:25]:
>> > > We also have to think of
>> > > better defining and controlling what should enter the archive.
>
>> > Definitly.
>
>> What would the minimum competency requirement and qualifications
>> required to become a maintainer?
>
>Well, this was not about "required to become a maintainer", but "what
>qualifies a package that it should enter the debian archive". At the
>moment, there is just one written criteria, and that is "DFSG-free"
And it has happened more than once that a new package was rejected by
the ftpmaster after a lot of work was invested into the package. This
is bad, and waste of resources.
There should be an interface to get ftpmaster pre-approval before more
work is done on a package.
Greetings
Marc
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