On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 10:44:59PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 07:13:23PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > The question is, is there a way we can minimize the overhead of integrating > > contributions from folks who aren't (yet) DDs? Given what I see and hear > > from various sponsors, the review of sponsored uploads is already a joke; > > various sponsors already trust their sponsorees implicitly, so if there's > > already no real review happening, are we better off dispensing with the > > illusion? > How is that an illusion. If the sponsor has sponsored twenty uploads > for a candidate and they have all been flawless or nearly so, then is > there actually anything wrong with the sponsor implicitly trusting the > candidate? It means that the sponsor signing the upload doesn't mean what some have been led to believe it does. > I think the line is rather blurry. If you have someone who just started > in NM and is working on his first or second package, then that > individual should not have "unsupervised" upload ability. However, if > you have someone who has been in NM for a year, packaged 20 packages and > prepared 50 uploads, I would say that person is probably able to handle > things on his own. Um. Quantity != quality. I hope no one is going to grant someone upload privileges based solely on the number of times they've prepared package revisions. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
