On 2011-01-13 14:33, Justin B Rye wrote:
Definitely, thank you. This detail was actually based on the article referred to, where the meaning is unambiguous.[...] Thank you Justin,Mehdi Dogguy</a>, who became a member of Debian's Release team even though he's been a Debian Developer for barely a yearI personally wonder what the role of the "even though" is. Did the author think the release team is accepting people with too little experience? In my opinion, it's good to recruit more, this reduces the risk of manpower shortage.I read it as "wow, well done", but I can see how you get the "gasp of horror" interpretation. I've changed it to "became a member of Debian's Release team barely a year after first becoming a Debian Developer", which I hope is less misleading.
The article implies that it's an achievement to get in the release team for someone who is only a DD for one year. This seems to suggest that it is hard to be fit for the release team. I don't think this is a good message to send. The team definitely needs people with a huge experience to set release standards, schedules, and to a lesser extent, to schedule and handle migrations, but the release team also had trouble coping with some trivial tasks like leaf package removals, at least in the close past. People who are actively involved in Debian and who know to respect their limits should be welcome in the team.
So, I agree that I've never seen a name that means so little to me as Mehdi Dogguy being nominated to the team, this is a fact. But the reason why we state this fact should be clear: we need more people like Mehdi to care about and help the release process, not that it is difficult to help it.
Raphaël Herzog</a>.s/Herzog/Hertzog/I *never* spot that. I was too busy thinking about "Reverse People Behind Debian" ("People In Front Of Debian"?) and whether it should be "People Behind 'People Behind Debian'"...
Heh, very right...
Yes, I have no idea how great was the speed improvement, but the newsworthiness must indeed come from it.Sandro Tosi mentioned on his blog that<a href="http://sandrotosi.blogspot.com/2010/12/bts-link-has-new-home.html";>bts-link has a new home</a>. Several weeks ago, in fact,<a href="http://bts-link.alioth.debian.org/";>bts-link</a> was migrated from merkel.debian.org to busoni.debian.org.With all the respect due to bts-link, this item doesn't make it clear why this server move is newsworthy.I suspect "to busoni.debian.org, giving it much faster access to BTS data", but does anybody know details?