On 23/10/08 at 12:05 -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: > Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > On 22/10/08 at 23:33 +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > > >> and keyring managers > >> would like to remain the authoritative source for "who is in Debian". > > > > Indeed, that's a problem. What about changing the DM process so that > > keyring managers are responsible for this keyring as well? > > That's what he said:
What I meant was: What about *simply* changing the DM process so that keyring managers are responsible for this keyring as well, and dropping all the other changes in Joerg's mail? > > Changes to the DM Keyring > > ------------------------- > > Keyring management will be moved to the control of keyring-maint. The > > NM committee will decide who will be added or removed, similiar to the > > way keyring-maint and DAM currently work together. > > [...] > >> They are allowed to upload their own (source) package. The allowed list > >> of (source) packages to upload can be edited by any member of the NM > >> committee[NMC], who will do a package check before they add new packages > >> to the DM's list. > > > > There's a problem with DM currently: it doesn't work well with massively > > comaintained packages. For example, if you have: > > - a team with DMs DMa and DMb > > - DMa became DM to maintain Pa > > - DMb became DM to maintain Pb > > - DMa wants to help with the maintainance of Pb, but should not be given > > upload rights for Pb > > - DMb wants to help with the maintainance of Pa, but should not be given > > upload rights for Pa > > That's not a problem which should be solved by a technical "workaround". If > you > are not confident enough that either DMa won't upload Pb or DMb won't upload > Pa > then why are you giving her/him rights to change anything in either Pa or Pb? DM was sold as a "limited upload rights" solution. I think that some people did not realize that it wasn't that simple: some people might have the right to upload stuff "by mistake" because of this design flaw. > It's like if you wanted to limit what packages DDs can upload and which not. Aren't we talking about DM? -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]