Re: Developer Status
On 23/10/08 at 12:05 -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
>
> > On 22/10/08 at 23:33 +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> >
> >> and keyring managers
> >> would like to remain the authoritative source for "who is in Debian".
> >
> > Indeed, that's a problem. What about changing the DM process so that
> > keyring managers are responsible for this keyring as well?
>
> That's what he said:
What I meant was: What about *simply* changing the DM process so that
keyring managers are responsible for this keyring as well, and dropping
all the other changes in Joerg's mail?
> > Changes to the DM Keyring
> > -------------------------
> > Keyring management will be moved to the control of keyring-maint. The
> > NM committee will decide who will be added or removed, similiar to the
> > way keyring-maint and DAM currently work together.
>
> [...]
> >> They are allowed to upload their own (source) package. The allowed list
> >> of (source) packages to upload can be edited by any member of the NM
> >> committee[NMC], who will do a package check before they add new packages
> >> to the DM's list.
> >
> > There's a problem with DM currently: it doesn't work well with massively
> > comaintained packages. For example, if you have:
> > - a team with DMs DMa and DMb
> > - DMa became DM to maintain Pa
> > - DMb became DM to maintain Pb
> > - DMa wants to help with the maintainance of Pb, but should not be given
> > upload rights for Pb
> > - DMb wants to help with the maintainance of Pa, but should not be given
> > upload rights for Pa
>
> That's not a problem which should be solved by a technical "workaround". If you
> are not confident enough that either DMa won't upload Pb or DMb won't upload Pa
> then why are you giving her/him rights to change anything in either Pa or Pb?
DM was sold as a "limited upload rights" solution. I think that
some people did not realize that it wasn't that simple: some people
might have the right to upload stuff "by mistake" because of this design
flaw.
> It's like if you wanted to limit what packages DDs can upload and which not.
Aren't we talking about DM?
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