Re: Bits from the DAMs

2005-02-12 Thread David Schmitt
On Saturday 12 February 2005 14:28, Jérôme Marant wrote: > You missed the point. I'm asking for the rationale about the need > for more and more key signatures. The OP stated, that the second signature was needed to protect against a DD "faking" a second one. Regards, David

Re: Bits from the DAMs

2005-02-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.02.12.1836 +0100]: > All of this is very questionable, IMHO. I can't make mistakes that > easily. At least, people notice mistakes very quickly. Sure. But if your mistake is to let J. Random Hacker take over your key without you taking note, it c

Re: Bits from the DAMs

2005-02-12 Thread Jérôme Marant
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > also sprach Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.02.12.1426 +0100]: >> Why wouldn't they get a _Debian membership_ status like any other >> contributor? Isn't it unfair not to do so? > > Every additional member with write access to the archive is an

Re: Bits from the DAMs

2005-02-12 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 03:02:33PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.02.12.1426 +0100]: > > Why wouldn't they get a _Debian membership_ status like any other > > contributor? Isn't it unfair not to do so? > > Every additional member with write acce

Re: Bits from the DAMs

2005-02-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.02.12.1426 +0100]: > Why wouldn't they get a _Debian membership_ status like any other > contributor? Isn't it unfair not to do so? Every additional member with write access to the archive is an additional threat to the integrity of the archive i

Re: Bits from the DAMs

2005-02-12 Thread Andreas Barth
* Bruno Barrera C. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050212 14:25]: > On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 13:55 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > Do you realy think it is difficult to get a second signature onto your > > gpg key? Go to one key-signing party and you get 10 even on a small > > one. > > > > It might be di

Re: Bits from the DAMs

2005-02-12 Thread Jérôme Marant
Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I don't get it. Do you have a concrete example that makes this necessary? >> It seems more and more difficult to become member of Debian, which is >> after all a volonteer-only project. Why trying to more and more discourage >> people to contribu

Re: Bits from the DAMs

2005-02-12 Thread Jérôme Marant
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > also sprach Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.02.12.1320 +0100]: >> What about translators? Isn't it time to give them a real status? >> They definitely aren't second-class contributors. > > They do not need developer status, do they? They should

Re: Bits from the DAMs

2005-02-12 Thread Jérôme Marant
Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> What about translators? Isn't it time to give them a real status? >> They definitely aren't second-class contributors. > > Looking at Frans, this seems to work. My experience (also as AM) is that > people who join Debian with another core task than main

Re: Bits from the DAMs

2005-02-12 Thread Bruno Barrera C.
On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 13:55 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > Do you realy think it is difficult to get a second signature onto your > gpg key? Go to one key-signing party and you get 10 even on a small > one. > > It might be difficult to get a DD signature for geographical reasons > but any

Re: Bits from the DAMs

2005-02-12 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Saturday 12 February 2005 13:55, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > =?iso-8859-15?q?J=E9r=F4me_Marant?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> - Also not accepted are people without traceable actions for > >> Debian. Examples of this include > >>- having only one package in the archive, with only one

Re: xfce-common scomparso

2005-02-12 Thread Filippo Giunchedi
[for non-italian readers he's wondering why xfce-common disappeared (?)] On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 10:24:52PM +0100, Davide wrote: > Ma dove è finito il pacchetto xfce-common? questa e' una lista in inglese, prova su debian-user-italian o debian-italian filippo -- Filippo Giunchedi GNU/PG key: 6B

Re: Bits from the DAMs

2005-02-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
=?iso-8859-15?q?J=E9r=F4me_Marant?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> - We wont accept[5] applicants who have only one signature on their GPG-key >> if that signature is made by the advocate. If it has only a signature >> from the advocate at least another one from the web-of-trust is >> needed

Re: Bits from the DAMs

2005-02-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.02.12.1320 +0100]: > What about translators? Isn't it time to give them a real status? > They definitely aren't second-class contributors. They do not need developer status, do they? They should not upload directly anyway, but go through the main

Re: Bits from the DAMs

2005-02-12 Thread Andreas Barth
* Jérôme Marant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050212 13:25]: > Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > - Also not accepted are people without traceable actions for > > Debian. Examples of this include > >- having only one package in the archive, with only one upload, > >- packages with dead

Re: Bits from the DAMs

2005-02-12 Thread Jérôme Marant
(CC'ing -project as well) Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, Hi, Here are few comments/questions. > following the various "Bits from $foo" this is a small mail to summarize > whats up with "the DAMs". [...] > 1. Introduction of the new DAM member > -