On Jan 29, 2008, at 2:27 PM, Matthew Johnson wrote:
On Tue Jan 29 13:16, Lex Spoon wrote:
On Jan 29, 2008, at 4:24 AM, Matthew Johnson wrote:
I strongly agree with Christoph. As it is I am of the opinion
that it is
too easy to get DM rights (particularly given the number of
people who
said 'it ought to take 3 months to become a DD' in response to my
suggestions of NM reform). One of the things which tempers that
is the
public way in which DMs are proposed, giving people the
opportunity to
review the DM and react.
Can you explain why you and Christoph think it is too easy to get DM
rights?
It may be worth referring to my original post to -newmaint[0] and my
wiki page on the subject[1]. I think that the DM applications
should be
managed through the same overall process as NM and should require an
(abbreviated) set of checks in the same style as NM. I think the
current
NM process is too lengthy (mainly in administrative overhead, and it's
not as bad now that DM exists), but I think that DM is an overreaction
in the other direction.
Thanks for the links, but I have a hard time interpreting them as a
reform of DM. It sounds like you are advocating for more of a fairly
different DM process. That is interesting but I don't think it is
very productive in this forum. Let's focus in this forum on making
the DM setup we have work as well as possible.
No system is going to result in perfect uploads. The goal is to
balance
good uploads versus timely uploads. If there has really been only
one
controversial upload by a DM, then that seems like a very good
track record
in practice. It would be hard to improve on such a low rate of bad
uploads.
It's not exactly been going for very long, and one every few months I
would say is quite high...
At some point we just have to agree to disagree. I think one every
few months is extraordinarily good, so good that it would be better
to focus on other quality axes.
I fully agree with you that the experiment is young. Time will have
to tell whether this keeps up.
-Lex
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