Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Le Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 11:20:31PM +0200, Andreas Barth a écrit :
> 
> This concept needs double or tripple man power from what we currently
> have. That's the show-stopper.

Hi all,

one way to increase the manpower is to give more permissions to the package
maintainers.

For instance, one could imagine to use a command file or directory writable by
every DD, that would cause packages to be moved or removed from our non-stable
suites, with features like the following:

 - Only for leaf packages of priority optional or lower,
 - a system to keep an eye on the changes (commit list or RSS feed),
 - a temporisation mechanism so that changes are not executed immediately,
 - stored in a VCS so that it is easy to revert changes.

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan