On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 05:15:54PM +0100, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > IANADD. > > Hi Martin, > > On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 03:10:38PM +0000, Martin Meredith wrote: > > My suggestion to add to the NM process would be something along similar lines. > > We currently have a NM council, Front Desk, etc etc. I would think that it would > > be nice if we could add in a process where someone could get "hand waved" > > through NM based on a majority vote from an approved set of people (say FD, NM > > team, or something similar) > > Would you consider this addition to the NM process to apply for "other > contributors" as well? I'm thinking about the translators who contribute > a lot but don't go through NM because they don't want to deal with e.g. > library packaging just to get the right of vote in a project that they > extensively contribute to but just in a different way than most of the > others. I'm asking because IIRC this is one of (or THE one) the special > cases where a "membership without upload rights" (or whatever it's > called) came up in the pre-lenny discussions. If they could get "hand > waved" through NM we could abstain from a special group of "members w/o > upload rights but w/ vote rights", couldn't we? As I think my previous email might not have been exactly clear. I'm not an advocate of "hand waving" contributors through NM to a place where they have upload rights. It's my opinion that upload rights shouldn't be granted to all Debian Members. Just to those who are actively working on packaging/code. This would also mean that, for example, emeritus developers could still be a Debian Member, but not have upload rights.
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