Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-21 Thread martin f krafft
Seconded. also sprach Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007.06.21.1450 +0100]: Hey all, So here's a proposal for the Debian Maintainers idea that's been floating around for some time now [0]. I've drafted it while lying in bed in the Budget Backpackers before wandering up to debconf, so

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-21 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
Il giorno gio, 21/06/2007 alle 17.37 +0200, Bastian Venthur ha scritto: So, why such a complicated GR introducing second class DDs? Just grant a few more rights to our NMs and try to improve the NM process in the long run and everybody will be happy. Esquisitely true. -- Federico Di

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-21 Thread Joey Hess
Anthony Towns wrote: 1) A new keyring will be created, called the Debian maintainers keyring. It will be initially maintained in alioth subversion using the jetring tool, with commit priveleges initially assigned to: FWIW, I'm uncomfortable with the idea of a GR that specifies what tools

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Federico Di Gregorio wrote: Il giorno gio, 21/06/2007 alle 17.37 +0200, Bastian Venthur ha scritto: So, why such a complicated GR introducing second class DDs? Just grant a few more rights to our NMs and try to improve the NM process in the long run and everybody

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Joey Hess wrote: Anthony Towns wrote: 1) A new keyring will be created, called the Debian maintainers keyring. It will be initially maintained in alioth subversion using the jetring tool, with commit priveleges initially assigned to: FWIW, I'm uncomfortable

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-21 Thread Bastian Venthur
Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Federico Di Gregorio wrote: Il giorno gio, 21/06/2007 alle 17.37 +0200, Bastian Venthur ha scritto: So, why such a complicated GR introducing second class DDs? Just grant a few more rights to our NMs and try to improve the NM process in the long run

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-21 Thread Joey Hess
Raphael Hertzog wrote: That's precisely why it's written initially twice in that sentence. initially is ambiguous. Also, I don't want a precident of voting on what tools developers must use. We already have enough bad GR precidents. :-P -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-21 Thread Joey Schulze
Raphael Hertzog wrote: 1/ I know people who want to maintain package but don't want to be DD. The time involvement required to be DD is far bigger to the one required to be able to maintain properly a single package. And I don't want to lower the barrier to become DD because the role of DD

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-21 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 02:50:59PM +0100, Anthony Towns wrote: Hey all, So here's a proposal for the Debian Maintainers idea that's been floating around for some time now [0]. I've drafted it while lying in bed in the Budget Backpackers before wandering up to debconf, so it's just my take

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-21 Thread Bastian Venthur
Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Bastian Venthur wrote: In short, this DM status is complementary to NM. It's not working around any deficiency in the NM process. I really doubt that. If I read Anthony's links he have in his GR proposal, it all sounds very much like a workaround

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Joey Schulze wrote: Raphael Hertzog wrote: 1/ I know people who want to maintain package but don't want to be DD. The time involvement required to be DD is far bigger to the one required to be able to maintain properly a single package. And I don't want to lower

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-21 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Thursday 21 June 2007 16:50, Anthony Towns wrote: * multiple Debian developers have requested the individual's removal for non-spurious reasons; eg, due to problematic uploads, unfixed bugs, or being unreasonably difficult to work with. This by itself is too

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-21 Thread Joey Schulze
Pierre Habouzit wrote: Another question I have is that basically, I don't grok why it's harder to give DM's uploads rights, than NM's an account. DD implies an account on ~20 machines. Having only upload rights does not imply this and the outcome of a fuckup in a .deb will only cause an

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Bastian Venthur wrote: I agree that there might be a few people who don't want to be a DD but a DM although I really can't understand why, since both classes are almost identical (day to day work wise) and the extra D almost comes for free if you're already a DM: just

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-21 Thread Joey Schulze
Raphael Hertzog wrote: The time involvement required to be DD is far bigger to the one required to be able to maintain properly a single package. And I don't want to lower the barrier to become DD because the role of DD are critical in the success of Debian (while the role a maintainer

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-21 Thread Joey Schulze
Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: * multiple Debian developers have requested the individual's removal for non-spurious reasons; eg, due to problematic uploads, unfixed bugs, or being unreasonably difficult to work with. Also, expect many errors at least on the initial

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-21 Thread Joey Schulze
Raphael Hertzog wrote: If you want to improve the NM process, fine, the NM team awaits your help. But don't block other initiatives to improve Debian for reasons which are dubious. So my reasons are dubious? I guess I should let you vote for me and just sign the ballot since your

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-21 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 05:57:36PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: If you want to improve the NM process, fine, the NM team awaits your help.. But don't block other initiatives to improve Debian for reasons which are dubious. That's very harsh, especially since either DM tries to address the

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Joey Schulze wrote: So I suggest you to not stand up against this proposition if you're not convinced that this would negatively impact Debian. It might be that it doesn't have as much success as I expect, but then we haven't lost much by tring it out. I wonder

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-21 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 02:50:59PM +0100, Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) The initial policy for an individual to be included in the keyring will be: * that the applicant acknowledges Debian's social contract, free software guidelines, and machine usage policies.

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-21 Thread Joey Schulze
Raphael Hertzog wrote: 1 It's a one time issue even if the time period involved can be quite long and A package maintainer that can't upload during one or two years and who has to chase sponsors indefinitely will end up demotivated and won't finish his NM process. (It's not

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-21 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 05:52:35PM +0100, Joey Hess wrote: Raphael Hertzog wrote: That's precisely why it's written initially twice in that sentence. initially is ambiguous. Err, it doesn't seem ambiguous to me: it'll start this way and may change later... If you'd like to suggest other

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-21 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 06:37:12PM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: And the main question is is still open: Why do we need this DM status? Which problem does it solve, if not the ones with our NM process? The NM process is about making new DDs -- who participate fully in the project, and

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-21 Thread Andreas Barth
* Anthony Towns ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070621 16:03]: 1) A new keyring will be created, called the Debian maintainers keyring. It will be initially maintained in alioth subversion using the jetring tool, with commit priveleges initially assigned to: * the Debian Account Managers

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-21 Thread MJ Ray
Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] The Debian Project endorses the concept of Debian Maintainers with limited access, and resolves to s/resolves to/resolves/ # resolves to a new keyring will be created? 1) A new keyring will be created, called the Debian maintainers keyring. It

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Joey Schulze wrote: Raphael Hertzog wrote: A package maintainer that can't upload during one or two years and who has to chase sponsors indefinitely will end up demotivated and won't finish his NM process. (It's not something which is true of everybody, but it's

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-21 Thread Florian Weimer
* Anthony Towns: 5) The intial policy for the use of the Debian Maintainer keyring with the Debian archive will be to accept uploads signed by a key in that keyring provided: * none of the uploaded packages are NEW * the Maintainer: field of the uploaded .changes file

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-21 Thread Joey Hess
Anthony Towns wrote: Err, it doesn't seem ambiguous to me: it'll start this way and may change later... If you'd like to suggest other wording, you're welcome to... If it's unambiguous, then the specification of what tools to use is pointless, since it can change at any time, and so again, I am

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-21 Thread Joey Hess
Florian Weimer wrote: * Anthony Towns: 5) The intial policy for the use of the Debian Maintainer keyring with the Debian archive will be to accept uploads signed by a key in that keyring provided: * none of the uploaded packages are NEW * the Maintainer: field of the

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-21 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Schulze wrote: The NM process after all is meant to help new maintainers become skilled maintainers of packages. If we want to get them maintain packages without going through NM we should not create a new stage but drop or restructure the NM process. IMHO The same argument could be

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-21 Thread MJ Ray
Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] If you want to improve the NM process, fine, the NM team awaits your help. Is that true? Is the NM team awaiting help to improve the process, or is it only awaiting help to operate the current process? Last year, I suggested improving the NM