On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 12:55:38PM +0100, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: > I maintain my original view point that this latter page is severely out of date. > Likewise, I still think that accepted DM:s deserve to be mentioned there. > Being incognito or unofficial to the general public gives an inferior impression. > > For some time now I have been living with the serious thought lapse, that > the weekly "NM Report for Week Ending ..." at "debian-newmaint" would include > also acceptance reports of new Debian Maintainers, but I have now been proven > wrong in this naive belief. dm_list.html is not out of date. I would appreciate it if you actually put some reasoning behind your claims, considering that the page does have a footer with an update time. The script that generates that page merges two datasets: the DM keyring and the projectb database. The DM keyring is updated by keyring-maint, and the projectb database is updated with package uploads. When nm.debian.org has been moved to another machine, the local mirror of the DM keyring became empty, therefore dm_list.html would only show data from projectb. Therefore, if you never uploaded any package as DM, your name would not show there. Looking at http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=mats.andersson@gisladisker.se&comaint=yes indeed there are no packages marked [DM]. I'll now work on fixing the keyring mirror on nono, because it needs doing. However, it would not be such a bad idea not to list people in dm_list.html until they have actually done something as DMs. The main point of DM is to be able to fix one's bugs (like, for example, #603926) without needing a sponsor, not to make sure that a name appears in a webpage. It is of course fair and right that people's work is acknowledged. Ciao, Enrico -- GPG key: 4096R/E7AD5568 2009-05-08 Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org>
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