This is an official complaint about the current buildd situation. The situation:
- Wouter Verhelst wrote on Tue, December 9, 2003 18:40 to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the m68k porters list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] to get information about the process of getting wanna-build access back. - James Troup wrote then (as a reply I think) on Thu, December 11, 2003 19:34 a mail to m68k-build list to get a status about the m68k buildd machines (new ssh key, kernel info, etc.). He then got answers he asked for. - As http://buildd.debian.org/stats/graph-week-big.png shows, there are some archs already have a working wanna-build access since days, namely mips, mipsel and powerpc. I really feel discriminated by this situation. It seems as if the archs that are managed by Ryan Murray are preferred in their restoring process whereas others doesnīt even get a status update when they donīt ask for information and even then, nothing really happens for days. I get the impression that there is some sort of a "Debian clan" that controls some important positions of the Debian project and that is protecting itself from being influence by the outside. This is my personal and subjective impression, although I know of other people who are sharing that impressions (in whole or in part). I do hope that this is wrong. But I think that a better and more open way of communication between some Debian admins and users in a polite way would help. Itīs simply impolite and embarrassing when you contact a person, whoīs administrating some service, and you get *NO* reaction from that person. Sure, people can be overloaded with work, being too busy to answer immediatedly, but when this extends to a longer time or is the default behaviour they should consider to share his workload with other persons that would like to help. But when they refuses that help, something is seriously wrong and should be solved. This is not intended to be a flame or personal insult to anyone, but to be a complaint, because Iīm really unsatisfied with the current (non-)information politic and the current buildd situation. -- Ciao... // Ingo \X/