George Danchev wrote:
> What if that is not a unfortunate coincidence, but their general
> style and tendency ?
If it were a general problem with Kartik and his sponsors of all his
packages, then Mohammed Adnène Trojette probably wouldn't have just said
"Kartik has not finished NM yet as I have t
On Sunday 25 November 2007, Joey Hess wrote:
> Steve McIntyre wrote:
> > In this particular case, the problem is much worse than just a single
> > bug in a package - it's a total failure in the sponsorship
> > system.
>
> From what Ramakrishnan and other sponsors wrote on this thread, it
> sounds l
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007, Anthony Towns wrote:
> Mohammed and Jaldhar, as advocates (and AM) of Kartik, do you have
> anything to add here?
What I have to add is:
1) Kartik is very reactive in correcting his packages when an error
is found
2) Kartik has not finished NM yet as I have to check (all) his
Steve McIntyre wrote:
> In this particular case, the problem is much worse than just a single
> bug in a package - it's a total failure in the sponsorship
> system.
From what Ramakrishnan and other sponsors wrote on this thread, it
sounds like Kartik was a frequent and active sponsee who did a lot
Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
> That's a bit weird. He produces a package with a major bug, ignores
> *all* hints by lintian and is now rewarded for that by getting upload
> permissions?
It's also a bit weird for someone to have their upload ability
immediately removed for making any sort of techn
With the upload of debian-maintainers version 1.4, the following
changes to the keyring have been made:
dm:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Removed key: 190A8C7607743E3130603836A1183F8ED1028C8D
A summary of all the changes in this upload follows.
Debian distribution maintenance software,
on behalf of,
Chri
On 2007-11-25, Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In this particular case, the problem is much worse than just a single
> bug in a package - it's a total failure in the sponsorship
> system. Sponsored packages should be amongst the best packages in the
> archive due to both the sponsoree a
Debian New Maintainer Front-Desk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
https://nm.debian.org/Christoph Berg
November 25, 2007 http://www.debian.org/devel/join/
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On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 12:20:39PM +0100, Torsten Werner wrote:
> I am worried how such problems are discussed in our project. Instead
> of teaching our fellows how to contribute better to Debian we denounce
> them in our mailing lists.
>
> There was a bug report submitted an November 23rd. I do n
Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have sponsored several of Kartik's uploads as well, regarding
> xosview (for which I am the previous maintainer). Some months ago,
> yes, Kartik needed quite a bit of hand-holding. As of now, however, I
> do agree his packaging (on what I have seen - this
Package: debian-maintainers
Severity: important
Current package includes in uploaders:
Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
AFAIR the Brian Nelson who works as Front Desk, or used to work, is:
Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
So please, update this.
OTOH, Brian (pyro) does not seem be very active
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 12:20:39PM +0100, Torsten Werner wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Did someone prepare and coordinate a NMU?
>
>Why don't we handle such problems in a more friendly way?
In this particular case, the problem is much worse than just a single
bug in a package - it's a total failure in the sponso
[Trimmed to project only]
"Torsten Werner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Why don't we handle such problems in a more friendly way?
I think this is a startup time for the DM procedure, and Kartik got
the unfortunate honor of being the first DM with a poor package in the
archive. We don't have any
Hi,
I am worried how such problems are discussed in our project. Instead
of teaching our fellows how to contribute better to Debian we denounce
them in our mailing lists.
There was a bug report submitted an November 23rd. I do not find any
instructions in the BTS how to fix that particular probl
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