Re: DM application
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El 21/04/08 07:22, Jan Wagner escribió:
| On Monday 21 April 2008 13:16, Bas Wijnen wrote:
|> DM isn't meant for everyone who uploads packages, but only for those
|> whose sponsors didn't need to change anything to the proposed packages
|> (at least a few times, IMO). Also, if severe bugs are found after an
|> upload, that indicates that the sponsor should have asked for a
change. ;-)
|
| Just an annoying question. What's about all those DD who did upload
packages
| with such bugs? Should we drop their upload rights? I think it's just a
| question of how frequently it happens related to the maintainance
workload.
I agree. We have to be careful when our interest for quality assurance
becomes plain bullying for our new contributors.
José Luis has now gone through most of the NM process -- Bas publicly
states that José Luis can't handle uploads but some people might make
false assumptions from this statement, such as "Debian doesn't work
since a guy that doesn't even know what APT stands for has gone through
the NM process" (which is not the case, but might happen :-) or even
worse "faw sucks since he has passed a useless maintainer", which again
is not the case.
Debian has less skilled, less motivated, less active and more
problematic maintainers and developers; therefore I can't share
arguments such as "you do not deserve upload rights since your upload
broke my package" especially when we are used to have breakages in our
unstable branch, either by human errors or not.
Furthermore, I believe that fixing breakages is a major part of our work
making free software distributable, so the problem might as well be
reduced to "am I too lazy to care for my package when a breakage occur
or should I just curse and rant about it?" -- I believe José Luis, and
lots of our new contributors are making an effort on doing useful work
in our archive.
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