On 10/31/2011 02:20 AM, Jonathan McDowell wrote: > On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 09:46:24AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote >> I was just wondering… why isn't the BTS used anymore to manage DM >> applications ? The Debian RT's front page is completely unhelpful and >> to my impression it gives the following message: « not your >> business ». > My understanding is that the BTS is still used for the initial phases of > DM applications, and RT is only used for the request to add the DM key > to the keyring to keyring-maint. > > keyring-maint use RT because we sometimes have a need to deal with > information before it becomes public (eg a compromised key) and it is > much easier for us to have one system that we always use, rather than > special casing some things. > > We try to move things that don't need embargoed to the public "Keyring" > queue swiftly, but unfortunately the read-only public access login to RT > is no longer available so this is unhelpful to anyone who isn't a DD. > You'd have to ask the RT team about reversing that decision. I do not think this is too bad. It is certainly better than a personal email sent to the keyring maintainer. I just wished (and I think this is the root of Charles' uttermost polite rant) there was a public variant of it, just like the NM status reports on https://nm.debian.org/nmlist.php
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