Luis de Bethencourt wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 11:19 PM, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm not talking about the CPU compilation, etc. I'm talking about >> "people resources" needed to re-do work that's already been done. Hence >> my reference to certain people doing the build. > > Not if the package is built automatically by the system. If it comes > out of the blue it goes to pending, if it is trusted member approved > to contrib. I don't see re-doing work there, and avoiding people lose > time will keeping a trustworthy system is our greatest objective.
None of which I'm arguing against if you have followed what I've written. Again, I'm talking about the "manual effort" cases which is what everything will be until an automated process is in place. > To become a Debian Developer you not only need to pass a technical > interview about packaging and open source licenses, legalities and > such. You need an other Debian Developer to meet you in person and > sign your GnuPG key, which you then have to sign all your > contributions with. > > OK, then you don't double check all the work of trusted people. But > this is very far from just letting anything in from anywhere. And in > Debian you do have to send the sources to be built in the official > machine, you have to use dput to push the packages in, and dput > forcefully send the source package. ...which is why I pointed out that if certain people have done the work, then there is no need to re-do it. Again, I'm only pointing at specific cases here; not in general. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
