(dropping the ridiculous CC list, AFAICT everybody is subscribed) On Thursday 27 April 2006 17:47, Sven Luther wrote: > None, it is the full decision of the project admin, and i believe what > happened here is that one such project admin did let some petty > personal considerations overstep his responsabilities. Yep, and the "admin" feels completely justified by this ridiculous escalation of a minor issue [0]. The commit access was revoked based on the fact Sven resigned but that decision was influenced by the circumstances in which that happened. Not only I, but several members of the d-i team, have long had issues working with Sven and basically we decided enough was enough. On Thursday 27 April 2006 17:43, Toni L. Harbaugh-Blackford [Contr] wrote: > So only maintainers have d-i commit access? This would seem to put > a lot of extra work on the maintainer. > > Just what are the rules for someone to have commit access? No, anybody, both Debian Developers and non-Developers can get commit access to the d-i SVN repository (actually there are 140 people with access in total of whom about 65% are non-DDs, a lot of them translators), and in general we are quite quick to grant access and very slow to revoke it. We are still [1] very interested in welcoming other powerpc people to help with support for powerpc in d-i. We _do_ need porter help to be able to continue support for an architecture, especially one as complex as powerpc (with several port-specific subarches, bootloaders and filesystems, non-free issues). Without your (powerpc community, not Sven) help support for subarches like apus, prep and chrp may loose their support in d-i. The issues that are listed in [2] are still there (except for the missing tg3 driver) and we'd dearly like to see those worked on. Cheers, Frans Pop P.S. This is the only mail I'm going to waste on this issue. P.P.S. Note that the daily builds that Sven is still running should not be used. Instead, please use the builds lined from [3]. P.P.P.S. Just for the record: I did _not_ support the expulsion request that was started a while back against Sven and have said so publically, although I very much did and do understand the reasons behind it. [0] Note: we are only talking about daily and weekly _development_ builds here, not about Sarge CDs or even Etch Beta2 CDs. Installing powerpc is still very much possible. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2006/03/msg00490.html [2] http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata [3] http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
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