Bug#666527: Intend to package b43-tools
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Dominik George dixit:
>Please disreagrd what tg said as it is stupid.
Okay, now let me explain this to the public:
I was Cc’d in this ITP, which, being a DD, put me into zugzwang
(this appears to be an actual English word; it forced my hand).
We discussed this in IRC, and I can only review a package and
its prospective maintainer from what they write, and possibly,
personal skills. While I still consider Dominik as friend, I
still do not think he should, at this time, be the sole main‐
tainer of a Debian package of software written in C, at least.
Another DD has helped me in that IRC session and even went so
far as to state he should not even be a co-maintainer, although
I do not think that. (Telling us now we should not have taken
several utterances of his seriously is the easy thing to do,
but I am not sure it reflects good on him.)
Nevertheless, I will not sponsor this package, and while at some
point in the future I think Dominik should be re-evaluated, his
unwillingness to be responsive to _two_ DDs’ opinions, at least
one of which he wanted as prospective sponsor, while on the other
hand having an attitude of expecting us to sponsor his package
and possibly mentoring him without having asked politely first,
blocks that for the time being.
All I do here is state my evaluation conclusion, as otherwise,
since I was Cc’d, I would be guilty by inaction, and ask any
other sponsor to reconsider _for the time being_, and ask Dominik
to seek a mentor via the proper channels first, and not be as
impatient. This is with my DD hat on, and considering the overall
quality of Debian. I am of the opinion that a package maintainer
should at least be willing to fix bugs in a package and able to
decide when to ask someone else, including upstream.
My conclusion also stems from the entire review session, not so
much from the source package he sent to me. I would probably have
uploaded it with minor required changes, such as fixing the repak‐
kaged .orig.tar.gz, but a non-DD/DM should not be the deciding
factor whether something gets uploaded as-is, changed or not at
all. Before I was a DM, I went through quite a number of cycles
with my sponsors and, while annoying, it wasn’t for nothing.
I will concede one request of Dominik: this is not publicly telling
all DDs that he is unfit for package maintenance in general, or for
eternity. A fellow DD and me just think he should not be the (sole)
maintainer of b43-tools right now, and within a short-term future.
bye,
//mirabilos
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