<quote who="Manoj Srivastava" date="Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 03:23:35AM -0500"> > The way I see it, Debian produces an modular OS. the > modularity of the product is, by and large[0], packages. .. snip .. > [0]. There are people who contribute to Debian other than as > package maintainers, but they do have the same rights of > uploading as anyone else. As other have pointed out, many package maintainers can't vote either. I think that the fact that the upload keyring is the same as the voting keyring is bad. Contributors are told they can't vote until they learn C compiler flags. People who don't upload anymore keep their privileges in order to vote. Branden had an interesting idea of fixing the second big by allowing people to simply opt-out of upload privileges through db.debian.org. Debian has a *very* poor recognizing non-packaging contributions to the community with enfranchisement of any sort. Regards, Mako -- Benjamin Mako Hill mako@debian.org http://mako.cc/
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