I demand that Arno Töll may or may not have written...
[snip]
2) ... Drive-by sponsoring does not work. It's annoying and back-breaking
to the sponsored maintainer to have a package containing lots of fixes and
maybe a new upstream version but nobody who uploads the you've been working
on
It's evident from recent conversations in various places that we are
confused about:
- what Maintainer and Uploaders mean
- who is entitled to do what when
- in some cases, the distinction between ability and permission
etc.
I'm going to try to set out my understanding of the current best
* Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk [120613 17:35]:
5. Introduce a new conventional location for information useful to
NMUers,
debian/README.nmu
Explicitly state that someone preparing or sponsoring an NMU should
consult this file. Statements in this file may
Hi,
first: thank you. Recent threads show, we clearly need a discussion like
this and hopefully people will take it as an opportunity to leave this
thread a bit more enlightened.
On 13.06.2012 17:35, Ian Jackson wrote:
Instead, when a package team
or lead maintainer accepts someone into
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes:
So for example, DDs have enormous theoretical power but there are
strong and well documented social controls on how they should exercise
that. I think as a matter of principle that the same principle should
apply to DMs: it is easy to
Hi,
as a clarification, because I was pointed to it:
On 13.06.2012 18:54, Arno Töll wrote:
Drive-by sponsoring makes this even more complicated and is not helping
anybody. We should stop advocating drive-by sponsoring at all.
... with the exception of evident cases like RC bug fixes,
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Arno Töll wrote:
Hi,
as a clarification, because I was pointed to it:
On 13.06.2012 18:54, Arno Töll wrote:
Drive-by sponsoring makes this even more complicated and is not helping
anybody. We should stop advocating drive-by sponsoring at all.
... with the
Hi,
On 13.06.2012 19:46, Michael Gilbert wrote:
I'm really not sure what your definition of drive-by is. Sometimes
I'll make time to look at a package interesting me, I'll communicate
with the sponsoree, upload it if they address my concerns, then follow
it for a little while to make sure
Hi,
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes:
I think the first three can be fixed relatively simply. I propose the
following changes:
1. Change the definition of the Maintainer field to permit multiple
entries.
There are currently four different entities (3 humans and a
Le Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 06:47:32PM +0200, Gergely Nagy a écrit :
I think that would fit into debian/README.source nicely.
Le Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 06:54:35PM +0200, Arno Töll a écrit :
README.source though, as people suggested in IRC.
Le Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 11:25:43PM +0200, Ansgar
Arno Töll a...@debian.org writes:
On 13.06.2012 17:35, Ian Jackson wrote:
1. Change the definition of the Maintainer field to permit multiple
entries.
There were probably technical reasons back then when introducing
Uploaders. Maybe someone knows.
I don't know of technical concerns
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