Bug#861625: ftp.debian.org: Allow DMs to upload to binary-NEW for their own packages

[Ximin Luo]

Luca Falavigna:
> Control: tags -1 wontfix
> 
> 
> 2017-05-01 21:48 GMT+02:00 Ximin Luo :
>> Could we relax the ACL for DMs so that they can upload to binary-NEW?
> 
> GR 2007-003 [0] clearly states "none of the uploaded packages are NEW".
> Allowing that would break what the GR explicitly say.
> 
> [0] https://www.debian.org/vote/2007/vote_003
> 

It says "The initial policy [..] will be [..]", it doesn't say this must always 
remain forever the policy.

Unless you're hitting it all the time, it's easy for people to forget about 
binary-NEW when NEW is mentioned. I forget about it all the time. I googled for 
"binary NEW site:https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2007/; and didn't find 
any specific discussion around binary-NEW in the context of that vote.

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Bug#861625: ftp.debian.org: Allow DMs to upload to binary-NEW for their own packages

[Luca Falavigna]

Control: tags -1 wontfix


2017-05-01 21:48 GMT+02:00 Ximin Luo :
> Could we relax the ACL for DMs so that they can upload to binary-NEW?

GR 2007-003 [0] clearly states "none of the uploaded packages are NEW".
Allowing that would break what the GR explicitly say.

[0] https://www.debian.org/vote/2007/vote_003

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Bug#861625: ftp.debian.org: Allow DMs to upload to binary-NEW for their own packages

[Ximin Luo]

Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: minor

Hi,

I just did a sponsored upload for libgit2 because the DM for it had his upload
rejected. Apparently DMs are not allowed to upload to NEW, and this package
changes its major version quite often so the binary package name needs to be
renamed from libgit2-24 to libgit2-25, etc etc.

The concept of DM is supposed to help smooth the process of contributing to
Debian and reduce the amount of "paperwork" DDs have to do in terms of
sponsored uploads. I'm not sure what this ACL gains us - if a DD has already
given a DM upload permissions for a package, this likely *includes* the fact
that we trust them to do binary-NEW stuff well.

Could we relax the ACL for DMs so that they can upload to binary-NEW?

To clarify, of course the new packages would still have to manually processed
by the FTP team, just like how it works for DDs currently. The point is to not
have it be auto-rejected.

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