On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Anthony Towns wrote: > 1) A new keyring will be created, called the "Debian maintainers keyring". > It will be initially maintained in alioth subversion using the jetring > tool, with commit priveleges initially assigned to: > > * the Debian Account Managers (Joerg Jaspert, James Troup) > * the New-maintainer Front Desk (Christoph Berg, Marc Brockschmidt, > Brian Nelson) > * the FTP masters (James Troup, Ryan Murray, Anthony Towns) > * the Debian Keyring maintenaners (James Troup, Michael Beattie) > * the Jetring developers (Joey Hess, Anthony Towns, Christoph Berg)
My only concern here is that it seems like we have a lot of people who are responsible for the keyring; do we need to work on a slightly more fleshed out framework for acceptance so that all of them are coordinated? > 2) The initial policy for an individual to be included in the keyring > will be: > > * that the applicant acknowledges Debian's social contract, > free software guidelines, and machine usage policies. How do we plan on checking this? > * that at least one Debian developer (preferable more) is willing > to advocate for the applicant's inclusion, in particular to the > fact that the applicant is technically competent and good to work > with. Do the people who are going to be involved in maintaining the keyring have a proposal for how to verify this? Don Armstrong -- Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. -- Justice Roberts in 319 U.S. 624 (1943) http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
