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Re: Developers vs Uploaders



On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 12:58:40AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 02:47:22PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> >   Well at first it is. One of my main sponsoree is Fathi[0]. I sponsor
> > him for quite a long time now, I'd say a year at least. The beginning of
> > our relationship was indeed really a teacher/student one. [...]
> 
> >   But for now something like 6 months, I've nothing to say wrt his
> > packages. I merely do cosmetics remarks, he knows his stuff. [...]
> 
> >   At least, with the "DM" proposal, he would not depend upon me anymore,
> > except for the introduction of NEW packages. That would allow me to take
> > new sponsoree, that would need the "teaching" part I quite like to do,
> > and that Fathi no longer needs for months.
> 
> That sounds like a recommendation...

  It is.

> ---cut--
> Changed-By: Anthony Towns <ajt@debian.org>
> Comment: adding holger as debian-maintainer
> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:25:59 +1000
> Advocates:
>   ajt - http://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2007/01/msg00037.html
>   kaol - http://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2007/01/msg00038.html
>   zobel - http://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2007/01/msg00043.html
>   tolimar - http://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2007/01/msg00044.html
>   sgran - http://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2007/01/msg00044.html
>   93sam - http://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2007/01/msg00047.html
>   neilm - http://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2007/01/msg00048.html
>   damog - http://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2007/01/msg00050.html
> KeyCheck:
>   [output of keycheck.sh]
> NM-Page: https://nm.debian.org/nmstatus.php?email=debian%40layer-acht.org
> Action: import
> Data:
>   [ascii armoured key to be imported]
> ---cut---
>
> [...]
>
> Anyway, what do you think about having a go at creating a jetring stanza
> something like the above for Fathi?

  Well, I'm still not sure wether DM is a good thing or not in fact. But
I'd say it has te be experimented yes. If we are going that road, Then
I've two people to recommend for this: Fathi and Yves-Alexis Perez that
is our one-man xfce-team (at least judging the XFCE Team recent activity
I think he is doing 99% of the job), and that is truck in NM because is
AM has still not sent his AM report (for almost 4 monthes).

  For Corsac (Yves-Alexis) it's not the best solution, but at least he
would not depend upon a sponsor anymore for the XFCE uploads, and I'm
sure it will be a spine out of his foot.

  In fact I think that at some point of the NM process, if the AM is
sure that his NM is doing a good job with his package, inclusion in the
DM should be very easy. I believe that allow a quite smoother
integration of the NMs in Debian, and goes in the right direction.

  Let me know what I have to do for this to happen.

-- 
·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder@debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org

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