-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 El 21/04/08 07:22, Jan Wagner escribió: | On Monday 21 April 2008 13:16, Bas Wijnen wrote: |> DM isn't meant for everyone who uploads packages, but only for those |> whose sponsors didn't need to change anything to the proposed packages |> (at least a few times, IMO). Also, if severe bugs are found after an |> upload, that indicates that the sponsor should have asked for a change. ;-) | | Just an annoying question. What's about all those DD who did upload packages | with such bugs? Should we drop their upload rights? I think it's just a | question of how frequently it happens related to the maintainance workload.
I agree. We have to be careful when our interest for quality assurance becomes plain bullying for our new contributors. José Luis has now gone through most of the NM process -- Bas publicly states that José Luis can't handle uploads but some people might make false assumptions from this statement, such as "Debian doesn't work since a guy that doesn't even know what APT stands for has gone through the NM process" (which is not the case, but might happen :-) or even worse "faw sucks since he has passed a useless maintainer", which again is not the case. Debian has less skilled, less motivated, less active and more problematic maintainers and developers; therefore I can't share arguments such as "you do not deserve upload rights since your upload broke my package" especially when we are used to have breakages in our unstable branch, either by human errors or not. Furthermore, I believe that fixing breakages is a major part of our work making free software distributable, so the problem might as well be reduced to "am I too lazy to care for my package when a breakage occur or should I just curse and rant about it?" -- I believe José Luis, and lots of our new contributors are making an effort on doing useful work in our archive. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIDKvzUWAsjQBcO4IRAqU5AKCD6JEcLiTAkNLyD7sLiJO+PfzS2wCeIIzW Rq5BcxRKGwi245dOs2eJ/J8= =LHyK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
