Re: Advocating Luke Faraone l...@faraone.cc
On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 11:10:31AM +0800, LI Daobing wrote: He has become Debian maintainer since 2010-02-27, it's a little short between the end of DM process and the start of DD process, but the DD process is very long, so we still have enough time to check his skill and perseverance on Debian project. And Debian is really lack of manpower. Sorry for my delay, I have been caught in a mix of family business and ash clouds. I am afraid I have a bit of a problem with your advocacy. Please see: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/11/msg5.html Advocation in the NM process [...] When you advocate a person, you are saying that they need and should get unsupervised upload rights on the entire archive, right now. In the past some people were advocated who at the time had not yet done any Debian related work. Please only advocate people who have contributed to Debian already, don't advocate someone that you expect will get involved in Debian later on. Having to cancel an application, or having someone disappear while in the NM process, is a waste of time and motivation for everyone involved. As such, we prefer that people who want to apply to NM have been active in Debian for a while already, and have built up some experience. In the last few months, we've already redirected some people to the DM process when we felt that they were not ready to become a DD yet, and we will continue to do so. Please consider this an official policy as of now. Please note that I am not questioning Luke's knowledge, motivation or experience, since I do not yet know anything about them. There used to be a habit of advocating people for DD early, reasoning that NM takes a long time and there will be an AM checking the applicant anyway. We found that this approach was one of the main reasons the NM process took a long time, and that since now with sponsorship and then DM there are plenty of ways to gain Debian experience, it's best to reduce the NM process to a quick oh, yes, indeed you're good[1], which makes it easier for the applicant as well as for the AM. [1] http://wiki.debian.org/FrontDesk/Tips So I'd rather you advocated Luke when you know he should get an account ASAP, make a good case for it, and then we get him an account ASAP, than risking to start a long, hideous mix of AM/mentoring that would be a waste of time and enthousiasm both for Luke (who could have more fun, and learn more, doing actual real Debian work) and for the AM. Ciao, Enrico -- GPG key: 4096R/E7AD5568 2009-05-08 Enrico Zini enr...@enricozini.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Advocating Adam Schmalhofer adam.schmalho...@gmx.de
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 08:29:45PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: Auth-Key: nmauth8fe886f8106aba6aab9d45532d419081 Applicant: Adam Schmalhofer adam.schmalho...@gmx.de Why do you advocate this person? (please provide a 5-10 line summary). I have been sponsoring three of Adam's packages [0][1][2] since December 2009. In this time Adam has shown he is skillful and he understands Debian's processes, policies and technical requirements. I find he is also friendly and responds quickly to feedback and new upstream releases. [0] http://packages.qa.debian.org/e/execnet.html [1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/apipkg.html [2] http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/pytest-xdist.html Hello Chris, is there a reason you have not advocated Adam for DM yet? I'd like to make sure this is really a DD advocacy and not a mistargeted DM advocacy: those three packages have really low popcon and look like they never received a single bug report. I see other activity of Adam in the BTS, though. There is now a preference to have people enter DD once they have accumulated some experience, possibly also as DM which allows unsupervised uploads, unless there are reasons not to do so. The goal is to have people advocated when they are ready to have a DD account *right now*, and aim at a swift NM process both for the applicant and for the AM. See http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/11/msg5.html at Advocation in the NM process. Ciao, Enrico -- GPG key: 4096R/E7AD5568 2009-05-08 Enrico Zini enr...@enricozini.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Advocating William Vera bi...@billy.com.mx
On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 11:06:13PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: I have not directly worked Debian-wise with William, but know him from the Free Software activities in my country - and have talked with him several times. I have reviewed his currently sponsored work in Debian, and is very well kept, which speaks well about his personal abilities Just one clarification: you say I have not directly worked Debian-wise with William, and that phrase raises a FD alarm bell about this size: http://www.1-800-4clocks.com/images/Big-Ben-Clock-Bell-London.jpg However you say that you have reviewed his sponsored work in Debian. The two statements are, as I see it, contradictory, unless it was just a quick review. Also considering how it went 6 months ago, I would feel more comfortable if I saw another advocacy message from one of the people who actually sponsor his uploads. I see many people are sponsoring his packages, so it should not be a big problem: $ who-uploads shtool Uploads for shtool: 2.0.8-4 to unstable: Jan Hauke Rahm j...@debian.org 2.0.8-3 to unstable: Daniel Baumann dan...@debian.org 2.0.8-2 to unstable: Daniel Baumann dan...@debian.org $ who-uploads hwinfo Uploads for hwinfo: 16.0-2 to unstable: Barry deFreese bdefre...@debian.org 16.0-1 to unstable: Alexander Schmehl toli...@debian.org 15.3-2 to unstable: Alexander Schmehl toli...@debian.org $ who-uploads scrot Uploads for scrot: 0.8-11 to unstable: George Danchev danc...@spnet.net 0.8-10 to unstable: Patrick Matthäi (Debian) pmatth...@debian.org 0.8-9 to unstable: unrecognised public key (73CDA455) I am not in fact Cc-ing them now because there are too many and I don't want to end up spamming people :) But if you could please ask whoever of them you think is more appropriate to chime in, I'd really appreciate it. Feel free to quote this message to them if you think it would help. Ciao, Enrico -- GPG key: 4096R/E7AD5568 2009-05-08 Enrico Zini enr...@enricozini.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature
NM Report for Week Ending 09 May 2010
Weekly Report on Debian New Maintainers === For week ending 09 May 2010. Weekly Summary Statistics = 1 more people applied to become a Debian Developer 9 applicants became maintainers. New Maintainers === The following applicants became new maintainers last week: Kanru Chen kos...@debian.org.tw Mikhail Gusarov dotted...@dottedmag.net Obey Arthur Liu art...@milliways.fr Thierry Soloniaina Randrianiriana randrianiri...@gmail.com Ritesh Sarraf r...@researchut.com Tommi Vainikainen t...@iki.fi Thomas Weber thomas.weber.m...@gmail.com Hideki Yamane henr...@debian.or.jp Serafeim Zanikolas ser...@hellug.gr The following DDs are now 6 months old and can decide to become AMs: ;) David Paleino d.pale...@gmail.com Applicants with no advocate === The following applicants have no advocate and have been waiting in the queue for longer than 3 weeks but less than 6 weeks: dhinu varma enjoy_life2...@breakthru.com Email will be sent to the applicants. Random checks === The following applicants have completed all checks but are not approved by their AM: m.schutte...@gmail.com (petere) sc...@kitterman.com (pkern) jeffrey.ratcli...@gmail.com (winnie) The following applicants are not AM approved but have an inactive AM: jeremie.corb...@resel.enst-bretagne.fr (adeodato) The following applicants have been on hold longer than 6 months: timo.schnei...@s2004.tu-chemnitz.de (bas) 2007-08-20 inv...@edena-fr.org (bas) 2007-08-20 marc...@gmail.com (madcoder) 2007-11-10 michael.ha...@gmail.com (adn) 2007-11-17 heik...@gmail.com (bas) 2008-04-18 j...@apuntale.com (bzed) 2008-06-29 j...@freedesktop.org (lucas) 2008-07-13 hfren...@scunc.net (brlink) 2008-10-31 cesar.go...@gmail.com (bzed) 2009-01-15 dan...@daniel-watkins.co.uk (bzed)2009-01-18 wi...@wm1.at (bzed) 2009-01-22 mar...@stigge.org (anibal)2009-01-23 deb...@psabs.com.br (francois)2009-06-20 andr...@putzo.net (bzed) 2009-06-23 harsh...@gmail.com (enrico) 2009-08-23 garridom...@gmail.com (enrico)2009-09-03 bryan.sut...@hp.com (don) 2009-10-06 arnaud.kyh...@free.fr (don) 2009-10-06 manphiz-gu...@users.alioth.debian.org (gwolf) 2009-10-19 miguelangel.frei...@gmail.com (enrico)2009-11-05 matth...@sigxcpu.org (enrico) 2009-11-05 The following assigned NMs had no apparent activity in the last 18 months: Gerardo Curiel gcur...@debianvenezuela.org (kroeckx) since 47 months Julian Mehnle jul...@mehnle.net (moray) since 45 months Ralph Amissah ralph.amis...@gmail.com (marga) since 44 months KÄstutis BiliÅ«nas ke...@kaunas.init.lt (formorer) since 41 months Ernesto Crespo ecre...@debianvenezuela.org (formorer) since 39 months Marcus Better mar...@better.se (jcristau) since 39 months Luca Bedogni m...@lucabedogni.it (anibal) since 33 months Alan Baghumian a...@technotux.org (don) since 33 months Muammar El Khatib muammarelkha...@gmail.com (santiago) since 20 months Database inconsistency errors - AM name is in brackets. AM confirm date occurs before AM assignment date m...@tls.msk.ru: 2010-04-01 occurs after 2009-12-09 (spectra) henr...@debian.or.jp: 2010-03-29 occurs after 2009-09-01 (enrico) randrianiri...@gmail.com: 2010-01-25 occurs after 2006-02-20 (zack) d.pale...@gmail.com: 2009-06-23 occurs after 2008-05-03 (bzed) fsate...@gmail.com: 2010-04-08 occurs after 2009-09-03 (gwolf) manphiz-gu...@users.alioth.debian.org: 2009-07-30 occurs after 2008-08-05 (gwolf) s...@linux.it: 2009-10-06 occurs after 2008-09-26 (enrico) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-newmaint-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/e1obglq-0004fc...@merkel.debian.org
