On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 12:05:18PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > 1. to improve communication between DSA and service maintainers > > + have an archived, public list where (prospective) service maintainers > > can engage with DSA about stuff they are planning/thinking about. > > (Maybe recycle debian-admin@l.d.o, or use debian-services-admin@l.d.o?) > debian-services-admin@l.d.o seems to be rather appropriate for this (it's > unlikely that this kind of discussion would generate so much mail that the > list could no longer serve its current purpose). debian-services-admin@l.d.o seems to me, too, to be the perfect place for it. > It would also be helpful to have a document explaining their usual > requirements. It would pro-actively direct the service maintainers towards > choices that are acceptable to DSA. > > Things like: > - use PostgreSQL if you need a DB > - keep in mind that DSA likes to ensure high-availability, so make it easy > to run a replicate of your service > - avoid dependencies not in stable or stable-backports > - avoid X, Y, Z for security reasons > - etc. Also agreed. It sounds to me like a specifications of the production environment where things will be deployed, and it's something that as a developer I should see sooner rather than later. > > 2. to improve the tracking of services > > + request wiki pages from maintainers that detail who are the contact > > points, what the service does, what are its requirements. State a > > "service level agreement" (informative of expectations, not punitive, > > of course) > > + have service maintainers create similar pages for services in > > development, to provide some kind of "incubation process" during which > > DSA can provide feedback. > > This would be good to have but (someone|DSA) would have to prod service > maintainers to get this started, otherwise it will never happen. This > requirement could also be mentioned in the document I suggested earlier. I think we already have something very close to this description here: https://wiki.debian.org/Services Ciao, Enrico -- GPG key: 4096R/E7AD5568 2009-05-08 Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org>
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