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Re: Re-posed: Qs for DPL nominees: structural reforms to delegations



On Fri, Apr 04, 2025 at 01:57:01PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> 
> > I also think in some cases more overlap would be helpful, such as
> > release team and ftpteam.
> 
> Can you be more specific about where you see potential synergy here?

Both need to perform operations on the archive, remove packages,
install signed files, what not.

> 
> > And I don't understand for the life of me why we would not want
> > ftpmasters to be in the backports team or the tag2upload delegates.
> 
> Given recent developments, those concerns would appear to have separated
> themselves.  In any case, if you peruse Ian Jackson's mail from earlier
> today,[1] I think you'll see that the barrier to tag2upload's progress
> appears not to be of the sort that concerns you; Sean Whitton enjoyed
> delegations to both teams yet _still_ was frustrated in advancing the
> tag2upload state of affairs.  If Ian's summary is accurate, it is hard
> to imagine how making the entire existing archive administration team
> simultaneous tag2upload delegates would have helped.
> 
> Your imagination may prove richer than mine.

FWIW; I don't believe that's accurate, Sean was a FTP assistant,
not an FTP master (which is the delegated role).

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