Re: Bits from the ftpmasters

2005-02-21 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Matthew Palmer] > Do you believe that the ftpmaster team might be amenable to either of > the proposals mooted recently, such as multiple people certifying > that the package is OK (like "advocates for packages"), or a > collection of clueful DDs doing these sanity checks on NEW packages? The cr

Re: Bits from the ftpmasters

2005-02-21 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 05:16:39PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Matthew Palmer wrote: > >AFAIK, we don't notify for every new piece of software in the archive, just > >those which would fall foul of the export restrictions. > > That's mistaken -- we automatically notify for all NEW packages, so t

Re: Bits from the ftpmasters

2005-02-21 Thread Anthony Towns
Matthew Palmer wrote: AFAIK, we don't notify for every new piece of software in the archive, just those which would fall foul of the export restrictions. That's mistaken -- we automatically notify for all NEW packages, so that we don't have to examine every upload of every package in order to send

Re: Bits from the ftpmasters

2005-02-21 Thread Anthony Towns
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: You need access to the NEW queue. But if I'm not misinformed any DD can get to the mirror on merkel? Packages may not be downloaded from the NEW queue due to US crypto regulations (and Debian's approach to fulfilling the resulting requirements); however if your package

Re: Bits from the ftpmasters

2005-02-21 Thread Joel Aelwyn
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 12:55:39PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Joel Aelwyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 09:06:36PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> - uploads to NEW need an advocate in addition to the normal signature > >>... > > Hmmm. Seems like it cou

Re: Bits from the ftpmasters

2005-02-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joel Aelwyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 09:06:36PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> - uploads to NEW need an advocate in addition to the normal signature >>... > Hmmm. Seems like it could work, but might still have the issue that finding > two maintainers who think s

Re: Bits from the ftpmasters

2005-02-21 Thread Martin Schulze
Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > Because there's no guarantee (or even real likelihood) that the two > > developers whose signatures appear on the package have sufficient > > Clue to be able to produce quality packages. Pair programming only > > works when both people are switched on and taking note of

Re: Bits from the ftpmasters

2005-02-21 Thread Martin Schulze
Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Le Lun 21 Février 2005 00:16, Matthew Palmer a écrit : > > NEW would still have to be processed by hand, though -- crypto > > notifications still need to be sent, and the protection provided by > > two crap developers working on a package isn't not that much better > > than