[Lame cross post to -announce removed, gah] > The ftpmasters do their work for the project. They exist > on behalf of the project. The project does not exist as result > of the ftpmasters, it's vice versa.
However, the FTP masters are the resident experts in field of 'ftp archive mainti', ignoring their advice, or simply not soliciting it is probably not a wise idea in the long run. That said, this proposal has no meaning without an actual implementation of 'Package Pools', and none exists yet. However I know of at least 2 efforts to make one, so maybe it should be shelved until one gets finished? [It is not a trivial problem and it is a huge amount of effort to implement!] Jason
