Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal - Use Cases

2007-06-26 Thread Frank Küster
Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: == Upstream Maintainers == [...] Authorised by: Existing maintainer Notes: package should be co-maintained by maintainer and upstream, upstream generally to be expected to be uploading code changes rather than packaging changes I'm not sure I

Re: Re:%20Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-26 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070625 20:45]: You're already doing that in the sense that uploading such a package already instructs the BTS to forwards filed bugs to that person. For that there luckily is pts subscription available. (So those bugs cannot be hidden by closing them before I

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal - Use Cases

2007-06-26 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Monday 25 June 2007, Anthony Towns wrote: == Sponsored Maintainers = For packages that're maintained by non-DDs on an ongoing basis via sponsored uploads, DM status provides the sponsor with the opportunity to change the upload priveleges from default-deny to default-allow once they

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal - Use Cases

2007-06-26 Thread MJ Ray
Pierre Habouzit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] == N-M Delays This one suck, because NM delays are mostly fixeable, and DM will just make them not painful at all for DD, depriving the system to be fixed. This is exactly the use case I fear. That's why I'd like some

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal - Use Cases

2007-06-26 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 10:13:31AM +0200, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: Do we have any numbers on how many non-DD maintainers we have? I'm part of that group, but how large a group is this? There are about 2100 unique email address in the Maintainer: and Uploaders: field in the unstable

Re: Re:%20Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-26 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 10:22:48AM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: * Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070625 20:45]: You're already doing that in the sense that uploading such a package already instructs the BTS to forwards filed bugs to that person. For that there luckily is pts

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal - Use Cases

2007-06-26 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 02:50:59PM +0100, Anthony Towns wrote: So here's a proposal for the Debian Maintainers idea that's been floating around for some time now [...] I've used terms like initial policy quite a bit -- [...] Shortly before leaving

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal - Use Cases

2007-06-26 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070626 13:51]: There are about 2100 unique email address in the Maintainer: and Uploaders: field in the unstable Sources files. That counts mailing lists and potentially multiple alternate addresses for DDs as well as non-DD maintainers of course. I

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal - Use Cases

2007-06-26 Thread Felipe Sateler
cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: Do we have any numbers on how many non-DD maintainers we have? I'm part of that group, but how large a group is this? A very long one-liner[1] gets me 992 in the main unstable archive. Of course the number is different since the debian-keyring in the unstable

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal - Use Cases

2007-06-26 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 02:35:56PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: Someone with access to the real keyrings would be able to tell you the right number. TTBOMK, the real keyring can be obtained by ssh by DDs, at merkel:/srv/keyring.debian.org/keyrings/debian-keyring.gpg and via anonymous

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal - Use Cases

2007-06-26 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 09:18:57AM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote: However, like Pierre, I'm not convinced that the numbers of actually interested people is large. FWIW, I'm happy to put the work into this even if not many people end up using it. Cheers, aj signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal - Use Cases

2007-06-26 Thread Felipe Sateler
Anthony Towns wrote: On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 02:35:56PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: Someone with access to the real keyrings would be able to tell you the right number. TTBOMK, the real keyring can be obtained by ssh by DDs, at merkel:/srv/keyring.debian.org/keyrings/debian-keyring.gpg

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal - Use Cases

2007-06-26 Thread Paul Cager
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 09:18:57AM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote: However, like Pierre, I'm not convinced that the numbers of actually interested people is large. I suspect one reason that this thread hasn't resulted in many people expressing an interest is that non-DDs tend not to read

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal - Use Cases

2007-06-26 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En cette nuit nuageuse du mercredi 27 juin 2007, vers 01:06, Paul Cager [EMAIL PROTECTED] disait: I'm a fairly active (non-DD) member of the Java Packaging team, and I also maintain a couple of non-Java packages. Although I'm starting to become reasonably skilled at Java packaging, I'm