Re: Non-DDs as official Debian package maintainers
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On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 20:01:26 +1000
Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 01:02:55AM +0200, Roland Gruber wrote:
> > Jonas Smedegaard schrieb:
> > >>>I wholeheartedly want help also from non-DDs, I just see a
> > >>>problem relying on someone that we by definition do not (yet)
> > >>>trust.
> >
> > I am the maintainer (non-DD) of LDAP Account Manager and I am the
> > upstream author, too. If you do not trust me, who then?
>
> It's not that we distrust you - only that we do not trust you yet.
> We only trust developers. It's not personal. A developer is someone
> who has passed some assessment tasks and had their key signed by
> another developer.
>
> As Jonas said, by definition we do not trust non-developers.
And to clarify: The "trust" relevant here is in _maintaining_ the
_packaging_ of software for Debian officially. This is related to, but
is not equal to, developing and maintaining the software itself.
- Jonas
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