On Jun 14, 2010, at 12:45, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hello, > > ever since I created the Alioth collab-maint project [1], I have been adding > non-developers to the project so that they can work together with > other DD (sponsors) on a common VCS. 359 requests have been approved since > 2005, it currently amounts to 5 to 20 requests every month.
This is a service I use and I find it valuable. > The threshold > for acceptance is very low: > - I verify that they want to join for a valid reason (want to maintain > their package there, want to help a maintainer that host packages there) > - if they don't give a reason in the request, I verify if they are part of > other teams on Alioth, if yes I grant the access because someone else > already has had contact with him, otherwise I reply to the mail and ask > for more information (and reject if I get no proper answer) > > And I must always reject a couple of requests by DD that don't know that > they already have write access through ACL. > > This project started for two reasons: > - encourage usage of public VCS with broad write permissions (all DD) > even for single packages > - be able to refuse single-package project request on Alioth that would > only clutter the project list when they only need some space to dump > their VCS files (see http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/PackagingProject) > > Now I would like to stop dealing with those requests and thus I would like > a team of people to replace me. > > Is there an existing team that could take this responsibility? [2] > > Are there volunteers for the task? I would be willing to volunteer as part of a team. I work with the debian-perl team and find that group maintenance and co-operation makes things function quite smoothly. I would like to mention I am not a DD (yet), but have never found this to be a problem when contributing to Debian. Regards, Jeremiah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
