On Tue Jan 29 13:16, Lex Spoon wrote: > On Jan 29, 2008, at 4:24 AM, Matthew Johnson wrote: >> I strongly agree with Christoph. As it is I am of the opinion that it is >> too easy to get DM rights (particularly given the number of people who >> said 'it ought to take 3 months to become a DD' in response to my >> suggestions of NM reform). One of the things which tempers that is the >> public way in which DMs are proposed, giving people the opportunity to >> review the DM and react. > > > Can you explain why you and Christoph think it is too easy to get DM > rights? It may be worth referring to my original post to -newmaint[0] and my wiki page on the subject[1]. I think that the DM applications should be managed through the same overall process as NM and should require an (abbreviated) set of checks in the same style as NM. I think the current NM process is too lengthy (mainly in administrative overhead, and it's not as bad now that DM exists), but I think that DM is an overreaction in the other direction. > No system is going to result in perfect uploads. The goal is to balance > good uploads versus timely uploads. If there has really been only one > controversial upload by a DM, then that seems like a very good track record > in practice. It would be hard to improve on such a low rate of bad > uploads. It's not exactly been going for very long, and one every few months I would say is quite high... 0. http://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2007/12/msg00013.html 1. http://wiki.debian.org/Projects/AltReformedMembershipProcess -- Matthew Johnson
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