* Andreas Barth (aba@not.so.argh.org) wrote: > Well, please don't see my answers as the solemn truth. They're just my > current opinion, and may change during discussion. Sure, don't have any fear of that. :) > 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. Sure, this works, provided has the time to do it. Having access to the request lines (ie: ftpmaster@d.o) would be helpful with this though not entirely necessary since often these questions/issues are brought up elsewhere. > 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. I like this idea alot. It makes alot of sense to me. Can we get some input from others about it? Especially the ftp-masters and someone willing to actually write the column. Any comments/volunteers? Stephen
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