On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 09:52:15AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> writes: > > And I have also issues with every other use case that have been talked > > about yet. Yes, even the "upstream wants to package his stuff", I'm not > > sure we want to have tuomov-like people arguing with the release team > > about the silliness of stable releases, and for most of the upstreams, > > there is what, 10 uploads a year ? maybe 20 with snapshots.. Well, > > that's the kind of load that is easy to deal with as a sponsor. Really. > > Having people in DM for 10 uploads a year is a _huge_ overkill. FWIW > > that's the number of packages I upload in a day when I'm doing QA work > > e.g.. > > My primary worry about this proposal is that it leads to an increasing > number of packages in the archive that are someone's pet project, > maintained by someone who isn't keeping up with Debian-wide changes, and > which have to be chased down every time we do a major transition. I don't > think adding more package maintainers who aren't connected with what's > going on with the rest of the project is a great idea. At least with > sponsored packages, the sponsor in theory should be paying attention. AOL This is exactly what I don't like in the proposal. I think I already said that, but DM is about pet packages, while Debian as a whole is advocating Team work, Alioth, and co-maintenance. Something here feels wrong and fishy. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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