On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 07:39:39PM +0200, Joey Schulze wrote: > Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > Another question I have is that basically, I don't grok why it's > > harder to give DM's uploads rights, than NM's an account. > > DD implies an account on ~20 machines. Having only upload rights > does not imply this and the outcome of a fuckup in a .deb will > only cause an incident on these machines ~2 years later when the > distribution has become stable. sure, the formulation was bad. I mean, technically. I implied that I don't see why DM rights grants won't be any faster than NM accounts creation. > > Well, basically I quite concur with Bastian on the fact that it'll > > likely hide some current problem, and prevent us from fixing them. Is > > there _that_ many people around there that need upload rights _and_ > > don't care about voting rights, reading -private, and so on ? I'm > > worried with this kind of second class developers thing. I mean, as a > > staging area maybe, but I don't like the fact that people could stay in > > it for basically, forever. > > Regarding some sort of staging area, it may be worth to consider > introducing upload permission to a NM who is in a certain stage of > the process, maintains >= 1 package in the archive and when such > a permission has been requested from their AM? Sure, that would be IMHO a bit better than DM maybe. But it does not solves the "once I have an AM report, it takes it 6 months until I have a full account". I (as an AM) understand that reviewing an application is long, and not very entertaining, hence I don't expect this to be done every day. OTOH 6 months feels too long. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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