On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 08:33:20PM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: > * confirmed that the New Maintainer successfully passed the ID-, T&S- > and P&P check I think this is the wrong time. My opinion of current T&S is that it's completely on crack, I mean, okay, if one is going to package a library, he will have to learn what it means. But how many people are indeed packaging libraries ? Not _that_ many. I won't never ever touch a perl package, and am unlikely to package a ruby extension. Another DD will never ever touch emacs or python. and so on. Current T&S is about knowing too much. IMHO T&S should be revamped that way: the NM should just do regular maintainer job, and use DM rights to be able to upload packages, under the watch of his AM (who would have to be notified each time his NM uploads things). A regular work of his NM, watched carefully, is a better T&S that what is done right now. IMHO, a DM-like restricted-rights keyring could and should be used just after P&P has been validated. Then the AM would review packages, make the NM fix the most important things (if needed), and once done and properly sponsor-ed, give them uploads rights. Package after package. Once the AM feels the NM is doing a proper job, he can validate T&S, and submit an AM report. *That* would be a great enhancement of NM, and bring back some appeal in that sorry queue. I do care a lot more about people that indeed intend to help the community, than people that care about a pet package. Pet packages are the plague of Debian, I'm not really gonna support something that is going in that direction. So I'd gladly support/second a proposal in that direction. But like said, your current one is too shy, and almost worthless as it's a workaround for DAM delays, and not really a valuable improvement of anything. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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