also sprach Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> [2005.03.17.1711 +0100]: > Sure, they don't -- voting's voluntary. It's not if you are not allowed to. > They do need to be able to upload packages, or put stuff up on > people.debian.org, or do other things on our servers, though. http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2005/02/msg00079.html > >Does that mean that you would be happy for someone who doesn't > >need to be able to upload to Debian (for example a lawyer working > >on licensing issues) to become a Developer? > > If they're willing to go through the new maintainer process, sure. > I think that'd be a waste of time if the only benefit they're > going to get is the ability to vote; but if they think > differently, that's up to them; as long as they're contributing > something they should be able to pass eventually. And if they do not need write access to the archive, they should not get it. After all, every additional +w account increases the possibility of our archive becoming trojaned or the like. See the above link. -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, user, and author `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver!
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