On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 04:37:54PM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> That is the much more time-consuming than checking DDs. for our fellow
> DDs we have several data sources (mls posts, uploads, key usage) to
> track them, while we don't have anything similar for non-DDs. So
> several manual researches are needed (either on lists.d.o, google, etc
> etc).
>
> So, while removing the "easiest" part (checking DDs) we are left with
> the most difficult and time-consuming part.
Sure, but it seems an advantage nevertheless to me: we de facto ease
remove part of the task. Also, I fail to understand how things were
different with WAT runs. The relations of that with MIA seem identical
to me to the relations of the new proposal to MIA.
> Ok, so there should be a communication of removed DDs, at least on
> -private, so that DDs working on QA at least know it. if you/other
> feel it unappropriate, please suggest some other form of
> communication or ways to handle this. either in this proposal or at
> a later stage.
I consider it totally appropriate. Probably -private would not be
enough though, and also some "private QA" channel would need to be
triggered. How it was for MIA? I presume we can use the same channel.
> > ACK. Again, I don't see MIA "dying" due to this proposal, I only
> > see it re-focusing his work on non-DD maintainers.
>
> see above: this way our work is reduced in number, to focus on the
> most annoying, difficult, quite frustrating and pointless (non-DDs
> are not part of the project, in a strict sense (don't get me wrong
> here, I know they are valuable contributors, but they can't vote,
> blablabla)).
Understood. This proposal is no solution for that and I don't see an
easy one. Still, given the main utility of MIA has always been to
discover unmaintained *packages* by the main of MIA *developers*, I
feel like we still need that. How to improve it is a, recurrent,
totally different topic.
> But I also have to be honest and affirm that we receive much less
> requests for non-DDs than for DDs.
> > I don't have _the_ answer for that. What I can do, if you are
> > interested, is to hand over the list of potentially disabled DDs
> > to pinpoint your MIA queries at them and avoid/focus MIA
> > activities elsewhere.
>
> Of course it would be welcome: I'll cross check the current "TODO"
> list marking as 'pending on the proposal to be implemented'
> accordingly.
OK. I'll contact you in private for further development on this side
of the issue.
> > contacted me on IRC. At the end of that
> Yes, I contacted you, and I was quite surprised by this sudden
> proposal. Probably I should have made clear at that time that a
> contact would have been welcome.
My bad then, I could have understood that too. Sorry for the
misunderstanding, I hope things are clear(er) now.
Cheers.
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