Re: RFC: Changing the NM system

2000-12-17 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 07:29:30PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > I want to suggest to change the way NM works. > > Currently, someone applies at [1] and if he's lucky he has his account > less than 2 months after he applied. what real benefit is there in erecting even more barriers-to-entry for pro

Re: RFC: Changing the NM system

2000-12-17 Thread Christian Kurz
[Hey, I didn't Cc you, why do you Cc me know? I read -qa and -project, so I don't really need three copies of this mail.] On 00-12-17 Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Christian Kurz wrote: > > Well, what you propose here is an an removal of a debian developer and I > > don't think this sh

Re: RFC: Changing the NM system

2000-12-17 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 03:42:36PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > I've seen these not yet used guidelines for taking over packages and I Those guidelines have been used at least once. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~bro

Re: RFC: Changing the NM system

2000-12-17 Thread Mariusz Przygodzki
On Sunday 17 December 2000 12:09, Christian Kurz wrote: > On 00-12-17 Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Christian Kurz wrote: > > >... > > > > > > > > > suggests to the NM team that he should become a Debian account. > > > > > > The NM team (perhaps the current NM-Committee plus other > >

Re: RFC: Changing the NM system

2000-12-17 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Christian Kurz wrote: > Well, what you propose here is an an removal of a debian developer and I > don't think this should be so easy as you describe it. We should be able > to have a checklist and if some checks fail delete his debian account. > If someone is really MIA and w

libcgicg1 bugs

2000-12-17 Thread Matthew Vernon
Matthew Vernon writes: >I'm working on these now... Well, I've got a built version with the currently-open bugs fixed; OTOH, the code is terrible; I'm not sure I've got the patience to go and try and fix up the grossnesses in it. Shall I upload the bug-fix packages? Matthew -- Rapun.sel -

Re: RFC: Changing the NM system

2000-12-17 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-12-17 Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Cord Beermann wrote: > > >No, I don't intend to change this. My point is: Someone who has a Debian > > >account can do much harm (intentional or accidential). That's a reason why > > >I think we should have a severe look at the work of an applic

Re: RFC: Changing the NM system

2000-12-17 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-12-17 Colin Watson wrote: > Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Christian Kurz wrote: > >> more careful task&skill test would be helpful. > > > >Yes, and the main point of my proposal is: An applicant doesn't get his > >account before he had worked some months for D

Re: RFC: Changing the NM system

2000-12-17 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-12-17 Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Christian Kurz wrote: > >... > > > > > suggests to the NM team that he should become a Debian account. The NM > > > > > team (perhaps the current NM-Committee plus other interested Debian > > > > > developers) then looks critical at the work of

Re: RFC: Changing the NM system

2000-12-17 Thread Adrian Bunk
On 17 Dec 2000, Chuan-kai Lin wrote: >... > without being a maintainer" and everything comes to a halt. The > goals I stated for joining Debian includes: work on the Chinese > translation of w.d.o and help with QA work for Chinese-specific > packages. Okay, enough for background information...

Re: RFC: Changing the NM system

2000-12-17 Thread Mariusz Przygodzki
On Sunday 17 December 2000 07:40, Martin Schulze wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > Perhaps we need a more organized system of sponsorship, so that people > > who are stuck waiting in the NM queue can do QA work with some degree of > > ease. At the moment it seems to be largely a matter of whether yo

Re: RFC: Changing the NM system

2000-12-17 Thread Martin Schulze
Colin Watson wrote: > Perhaps we need a more organized system of sponsorship, so that people > who are stuck waiting in the NM queue can do QA work with some degree of > ease. At the moment it seems to be largely a matter of whether you're > lucky enough to find somebody who'll quickly and consiste