On Fri, June 22, 2012 23:01, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > There is nothing carved into stone yet! I just want to hear your > comments on this. The key point is that lay users will not understand > the difference between debian.net and debian.org, and we should not > require that they do. The purpose of this RFC is to seek comment on how > to address this concern and the above proposal is perhaps one such way.
I'm not clear why it is problematic that lay users do not know the difference between 'official' and 'unofficial' services. Take mentors.debian.net, perhaps the most visible debian.net service. How is it relevant to lay users whether or not this service is officially blessed? It works great for all parties involved. Whether or not it's blessed is mostly a project internal issue. The Debian security tracker has been on debian.net for years. It has been the canonical tool for anyone working on security issues in Debian. No problem there. (I do see why we want to run important stuff on DSA infrasturcture. But that is a project internal issue and does not really matter for outsiders to decide.) There's a selection procedure for DD's, because we want to be able to trust them to not do weird things when they post with their 'official' debian.org email address, or when they upload any package into the archive. If we can trust them with that, I think we can also trust them to run services in a reasonable manner, or at least not so unreasonable that it's necessary to put big warning signs on them. The outside world does not really care about the difference between debian.org and debian.net, but I do not perceive that as a problem. Thijs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
