Re: Developers vs Uploaders
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 10:44:59PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 07:13:23PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > The question is, is there a way we can minimize the overhead of integrating
> > contributions from folks who aren't (yet) DDs? Given what I see and hear
> > from various sponsors, the review of sponsored uploads is already a joke;
> > various sponsors already trust their sponsorees implicitly, so if there's
> > already no real review happening, are we better off dispensing with the
> > illusion?
> How is that an illusion. If the sponsor has sponsored twenty uploads
> for a candidate and they have all been flawless or nearly so, then is
> there actually anything wrong with the sponsor implicitly trusting the
> candidate?
It means that the sponsor signing the upload doesn't mean what some have
been led to believe it does.
> I think the line is rather blurry. If you have someone who just started
> in NM and is working on his first or second package, then that
> individual should not have "unsupervised" upload ability. However, if
> you have someone who has been in NM for a year, packaged 20 packages and
> prepared 50 uploads, I would say that person is probably able to handle
> things on his own.
Um. Quantity != quality. I hope no one is going to grant someone upload
privileges based solely on the number of times they've prepared package
revisions.
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