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). -- debian developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev ubuntu core developer i speak de, en
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