Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 22/10/08 at 23:33 +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > >> and keyring managers >> would like to remain the authoritative source for "who is in Debian". > > Indeed, that's a problem. What about changing the DM process so that > keyring managers are responsible for this keyring as well?
That's what he said: > Changes to the DM Keyring > ------------------------- > Keyring management will be moved to the control of keyring-maint. The > NM committee will decide who will be added or removed, similiar to the > way keyring-maint and DAM currently work together. [...] >> They are allowed to upload their own (source) package. The allowed list >> of (source) packages to upload can be edited by any member of the NM >> committee[NMC], who will do a package check before they add new packages >> to the DM's list. > > There's a problem with DM currently: it doesn't work well with massively > comaintained packages. For example, if you have: > - a team with DMs DMa and DMb > - DMa became DM to maintain Pa > - DMb became DM to maintain Pb > - DMa wants to help with the maintainance of Pb, but should not be given > upload rights for Pb > - DMb wants to help with the maintainance of Pa, but should not be given > upload rights for Pa That's not a problem which should be solved by a technical "workaround". If you are not confident enough that either DMa won't upload Pb or DMb won't upload Pa then why are you giving her/him rights to change anything in either Pa or Pb? It's like if you wanted to limit what packages DDs can upload and which not. > Then you have a problem. > > If you are maintaining a centralized list for DM upload rights, please > implement it as a list of (DM, Package), not just as a list of > (Package). Or even better, a list of (DM, Package, DD who endorsed this > DM for this Package). Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Maintainer www.debian.org - get.debian.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
