Re: AM report for Niels Thykier

2010-10-11 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Mon Oct 11 13:40, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > 5. Recommendation > > - > > I recommend to accept Niels Thykier as a Debian Developer. > > Oh yeah! I've interacted with him alot for various tricky stuff > (esp. in java packages, no surprise), and he just rocks. Please > make him

Re: application as Debian Maintainer

2010-06-14 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Fri Jun 11 23:07, Thomas Koch wrote: > I'm applying to becoma a Debian Maintainer. I support Thomas' application to become a Debian Maintainer. I have sponsored several of his packages working with the Java team and they have been good quality. I'm confident of his ability to update them witho

Re: Debian Maintainer application for Niels Thykier

2010-03-20 Thread Matthew Johnson
ers [1]. I have reviewed a number of Niel's packages within the Java team both for updates and new packages and have found his work to be of high quality and consider him competent enough to become a Debian Maintainer. Therefore, I support his application. Matt -- Matthew Johnson si

Re: More templates QA

2009-08-02 Thread Matthew Johnson
"an honourific", "a user" etc. NMU is pronounced "en-em-ewe", so it should be "an NMU". (just try saying "a NMU" out loud, the glottal stop is horrible) Matt 0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_and_an -- Matthew Johnson signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: make NM steps more healthy (Re: Why 0 new developer? (Re: NM Report for Week Ending 15 Mar 2009)

2009-03-22 Thread Matthew Johnson
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Re: Debian Membership

2009-03-21 Thread Matthew Johnson
x bugs > even on architectures other than their own. Yup, this is what I'd like to see as well. So far I don't think I've seen anyone objecting to the overall approach though, which is good. I think it allows us to start discussing more specific implementation details. Matt -- Matthew Johnson signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian Membership

2009-03-14 Thread Matthew Johnson
Shall we say decoupling it from specific technical abilities such as upload rights and package maintenance? Matt -- Matthew Johnson signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian Membership

2009-03-14 Thread Matthew Johnson
many things here I agree with, I don't think we can tackle them all at once here. I'm just trying to work on one thing. Matt -- Matthew Johnson signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian Membership

2009-03-14 Thread Matthew Johnson
is a waste: their skills and passion are better employed > in continuing their good work on Debian. Oh, absolutely, I really want to streamline it where possible. I've been saying this since I was in NM (-: Matt -- Matthew Johnson signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Debian Membership

2009-03-14 Thread Matthew Johnson
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Re: DM application for Martin- Éric Racine

2009-01-08 Thread Matthew Johnson
ly saying anything about this case) if people have doubts about someone in DM it means that we would rather they went through the more formal and thorough checking that NM involves. Detailed investigation into their current work is what their AM is for. Matt -- Matthew Johnson signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [D-m-team] Giving people time to react (Re: debian-maintainers_1.17_i386.changes ACCEPTED)

2008-01-29 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Tue Jan 29 13:16, Lex Spoon wrote: > On Jan 29, 2008, at 4:24 AM, Matthew Johnson wrote: >> I strongly agree with Christoph. As it is I am of the opinion that it is >> too easy to get DM rights (particularly given the number of people who >> said 'it ought to take 3

Re: [D-m-team] Giving people time to react (Re: debian-maintainers_1.17_i386.changes ACCEPTED)

2008-01-29 Thread Matthew Johnson
l uploads, when a little more time would mean you didn't make the upload at all. I hardly think a week is a long time to wait. Matt -- Matthew Johnson signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Proposal for reform of the Debian membership process

2007-12-08 Thread Matthew Johnson
x27;t think anyone disagrees that the account creation wait should be shorter; by making access control more fine grained it makes it easier to delegate at least some of the decisions and tasks for those access permissions which aren't as wide ranging. This may assuage the concerns some hav

Re: Proposal for reform of the Debian membership process

2007-12-06 Thread Matthew Johnson
; gives me a weird feeling. What > I like on Debian is that all DDs are equal, they have the same rights, > they can do the same things, and they're supposed to know at least the > same basic parts. That's something which should not be changed without a > good reason. That's why I prefer to be granting things based on what permissions you need and what technical ability you need to do them. With project member being orthogonal. Matt -- Matthew Johnson signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Proposal for reform of the Debian membership process

2007-12-06 Thread Matthew Johnson
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