Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal, updated

2007-07-21 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 12:28:27PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: would be made publicly available. Also, the a href=vote_002_tally.txttally sheet/a Oops, that should have been vote_003_tally.txt. Cheers, aj signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal, updated

2007-07-20 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 12:41:35PM +0100, Anthony Towns wrote: Okay, here's a new draft with the following changes: [...] Okay, as per A.2 I'm calling for a vote on this. TTBOMK there aren't any related proposals or amendments to add to the ballot, so it should take the form: [ ] Choice 1:

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal, updated

2007-07-09 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 12:41:35PM +0100, Anthony Towns wrote: The Debian Project endorses the concept of Debian Maintainers with limited access, and resolves that: [...] So one thing that I wrote about originally [0], that I don't think I've repeated much, is that ultimately I look at this as

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal, updated

2007-07-09 Thread AnĂ­bal Monsalve Salazar
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 12:41:35PM +0100, Anthony Towns wrote: Debian Maintainers Proposal The Debian Project endorses the concept of Debian Maintainers with limited access, and resolves that: 1) A new keyring will be created, called the Debian maintainers keyring. It will be

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal, updated

2007-07-05 Thread Bastian Venthur
On 27.06.2007 13:41 schrieb Anthony Towns: Seconds, comments or amendments appreciated. Since some people seem to prefer a simpler solution without a DM class but simply limited upload rights (as you proposed for the DMs) for NMs after a certain point in their NM career, I wonder how many

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal, updated

2007-06-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Fabian Fagerholm wrote: Perhaps the most proper way to make changes to the contributor classes would be to first amend the constitution, creating a new class, and only then issue a GR outlining how the practicalities will be handled (if needed). There is also an

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal, updated

2007-06-28 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 09:38:34AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Fabian Fagerholm wrote: Perhaps the most proper way to make changes to the contributor classes would be to first amend the constitution, creating a new class, and only then issue a GR outlining how the

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal, updated

2007-06-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Pierre Habouzit wrote: On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 09:38:34AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Fabian Fagerholm wrote: Perhaps the most proper way to make changes to the contributor classes would be to first amend the constitution, creating a new class,

DM-Upload-Allowed: yes hack (Was: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal, updated)

2007-06-28 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, On 27/06/07 at 12:41 +0100, Anthony Towns wrote: 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: [...] * the Maintainer: field of the uploaded .changes file

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal, updated

2007-06-28 Thread Alexander Schmehl
I second the proposal quoted below. Debian Maintainers Proposal The Debian Project endorses the concept of Debian Maintainers with limited access, and resolves that: 1) A new keyring will be created, called the Debian maintainers keyring. It will be initially maintained by:

Re: DM-Upload-Allowed: yes hack (Was: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal, updated)

2007-06-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 12:18:31PM +, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: On 27/06/07 at 12:41 +0100, Anthony Towns wrote: 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: [...]

Re: DM-Upload-Allowed: yes hack (Was: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal, updated)

2007-06-28 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 06:32:34AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: Well, effectively the DM /could/ sponsor uploads of their own package by using -m, though that seems unnecessarily convoluted to me anyway. At that point the difference between sponsoring an upload and applying a patch someone

Debian Maintainers GR Proposal, updated

2007-06-27 Thread Anthony Towns
Okay, here's a new draft with the following changes: - incorporate committers by name rather than by relevant qualifications - split committers into expected active committers and reserve committers - mention tools expected to be used, but don't require them even

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal, updated

2007-06-27 Thread martin f krafft
I second the proposal below. also sprach Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007.06.27.1341 +0200]: Okay, here's a new draft with the following changes: - incorporate committers by name rather than by relevant qualifications - split committers into expected active committers

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal, updated

2007-06-27 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 6/27/07, Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, here's a new draft with the following changes: - incorporate committers by name rather than by relevant qualifications - split committers into expected active committers and reserve committers - mention tools

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal, updated

2007-06-27 Thread Neil McGovern
I second the proposal below. On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 12:41:35PM +0100, Anthony Towns wrote: Debian Maintainers Proposal The Debian Project endorses the concept of Debian Maintainers with limited access, and resolves that: 1) A new keyring will be created, called the Debian

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal, updated

2007-06-27 Thread Bastian Venthur
On 27.06.2007 13:41 schrieb Anthony Towns: 1) A new keyring will be created, called the Debian maintainers keyring. It will be initially maintained by: * Anthony Towns (proposer, ftpmaster, jetring developer) * Joey Hess (jetring developer) ... * Brian Nelson (n-m

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal, updated

2007-06-27 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Wednesday 27 June 2007, Bastian Venthur wrote: Why don't we just grant some of those rights you're proposing for DMs to our NM's after a certain point in their NM career? That would in my opinion instantly help and motivate fare more people than the new DM class will ever do. current

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal, updated

2007-06-27 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Hi, I second the GR proposal quoted below. Cheers, Moritz =3D=3D=3D=3D Debian Maintainers Proposal =3D=3D=3D=3D The Debian Project endorses the concept of Debian Maintainers with limited access, and resolves that: 1) A new keyring will be created, called the Debian maintainers

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal, updated

2007-06-27 Thread Steve Langasek
I second the below proposal. BTW, s/intial/initial/. Debian Maintainers Proposal The Debian Project endorses the concept of Debian Maintainers with limited access, and resolves that: 1) A new keyring will be created, called the Debian maintainers keyring. It will be

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal, updated

2007-06-27 Thread Raphael Hertzog
I second the proposal below. Cheers, On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Anthony Towns wrote: Debian Maintainers Proposal The Debian Project endorses the concept of Debian Maintainers with limited access, and resolves that: 1) A new keyring will be created, called the Debian maintainers

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal, updated

2007-06-27 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
I second the following proposal. On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 12:41:35PM +0100, Anthony Towns wrote: Okay, here's a new draft with the following changes: - incorporate committers by name rather than by relevant qualifications - split committers into expected active committers and

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal, updated

2007-06-27 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 12:41 +0100, Anthony Towns wrote: Debian Maintainers Proposal I welcome the idea of enabling people to work on Debian, but it seems to me that this proposal (even with the latest changes) mixes some concepts, that it creates more work, and duplicates some work

Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal, updated

2007-06-27 Thread MJ Ray
Fabian Fagerholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] After that, the applicant could apply for the ability to upload already-sponsored packages, and leave it at that. The key would be added to the keyring (a separate keyring if needed for technical reasons). If the applicant wanted, they could