Re: Hijacking packages for fun and profit BoF at DebConf

2012-07-21 Thread Bart Martens
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 07:24:15PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: Hi folks, Hello, I have not attended the Hijacking packages for fun and profit BoF at DebConf, but I would like to share some thoughts on what I read in Steve McIntyre's report. It's a good title, that draws attention. :-)

Re: Hijacking packages for fun and profit BoF at DebConf

2012-07-21 Thread Luk Claes
Other than all the above, I have read interesting ideas on objective criteria in Steve McIntyre's report. Basically my point of this e-mail is that I welcome a debate on changing the MIA and NMU procedures to introduce objective criteria with short periods of time so that it becomes easier

Re: Hijacking packages for fun and profit BoF at DebConf

2012-07-21 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hi, Hijack tokens - At the moment, *any* uploading DD can hijack by simply uploading a new package version. Is that reasonable, or should we attempt to control it somehow? There was a concept suggested of hijack tokens - an idea that maintainers should be allowed to hijack

Re: Hijacking packages for fun and profit BoF at DebConf

2012-07-21 Thread Bart Martens
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 11:08:15AM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: Other than all the above, I have read interesting ideas on objective criteria in Steve McIntyre's report. Basically my point of this e-mail is that I welcome a debate on changing the MIA and NMU procedures to introduce

Hijacking packages for fun and profit BoF at DebConf

2012-07-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi folks, Here's a summary of what we discussed in the BoF [1] last week (12th July). Thanks to the awesome efforts of the DebConf video team, the video of the session is already online [2] in case you missed it. I've also attached the Gobby notes that were taken during the session. I'd like to

Re: Hijacking packages for fun and profit BoF at DebConf

2012-07-20 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear debian-devel, On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 07:24:15PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: Here's a summary of what we discussed in the BoF [1] last week (12th July). Thanks to the awesome efforts of the DebConf video team, the video of the session is already online [2] in case you missed it. I've