On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 11:51 PM, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
The automated process is in progress, and will be ready soon. :) Luis > >> 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 > -- Luis de Bethencourt Guimerá luisbg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG: B0ED1326 _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
