Re: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64
* Stephen Frost (sfrost@snowman.net) [040714 22:40]:
> * Andreas Barth (aba@not.so.argh.org) wrote:
> > * Stephen Frost (sfrost@snowman.net) [040714 21:10]:
> > > Is there some other way to get a remark from the ftpmasters on the
> > > issue? As rude as it may seem, it appears to have been much more
> > > effective in getting some comment on the issue than the other ways which
> > > have been tried. I do note that this is what tbm does to some extent,
> > > but he's pretty busy. Of course, whomever does the communication would
> > > have to make it clear that they intended to make it public, as I'm sure
> > > tbm does either explicitly or implicitly.
> > Well, than it's not a private, off-hand remark any more. Of course one
> > can cite other people if they agreed on that.
> That's true, but you didn't really answer my question. Is that the
> appropriate way to get the information out? Will it work if it's
> understood that the response will be made public? Would there be a
> problem with that? Is there someone specific who would work well in
> this role to complement and help tbm with it?
Well, please don't see my answers as the solemn truth. They're just my
current opinion, and may change during discussion.
Of course, if doing it in a nice way, getting information out from
people via e.g. IRC and publishing it afterwards is a good thing. For
example, "Status of the upload-Queues" -
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2004/02/msg00012.html
came to live this way. I had several comments from James (both via IRC
and mail), and also some comments by Tollef Fog Heen, Phil Hands,
Roman Hodek and others.
Distributing information is, like everything else, a voluntarily task
in Debian. So, if people help that this happens, I welcome it (as I
welcome if someone is fixing bugs, or working behind the scenes). A
good idea could be a column in the DWN like "a look behind the
scenes", and describe every week something interessting (new archive
structur, status of amd64, tasks of ftp-masters, ...), but of course -
how it is done is as always the decision of the person doing it,
unless something gets broken.
Cheers,
Andi
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