Re: On terminology

2010-07-06 Thread Ben Finney
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes: It seems to me that the Debian Maintainer role is clearly focussed on granting the minimum needed to be a maintainer within the Debian project, as opposed to a maintainer not within the Debian project. So

Re: On terminology

2010-07-06 Thread Holger Levsen
On Dienstag, 6. Juli 2010, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: Also Debian Developers are able to upload stuff, therefore uploaders. No no, that just doesn't fit :) Obviously Debian Developers can do, what DMs can do. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

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Re: On terminology

2010-07-06 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Jul 5, 2010, at 16:54, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Montag, 5. Juli 2010, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: As they seem to be often used in a shortened version, is there any way, we can prevent Debian maintainers and Package maintainers both to be maintainers? rename Debian

Re: On terminology

2010-07-06 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 05/07/2010 16:54, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Montag, 5. Juli 2010, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: As they seem to be often used in a shortened version, is there any way, we can prevent Debian maintainers and Package maintainers both to be maintainers? rename Debian maintainers to

Re: Debian Uploader, Debian Contributor : was On terminology

2010-07-06 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 07/05/2010 11:19 PM, Henri Le Foll wrote: I understand that any one who has an advocate can become a Debian Maintainer. So the Debian Maintainer as it is today could become a Debian Contributor. Without any modification. Everything relies on the advocation. I have created

Re: On terminology

2010-07-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 06 July 2010, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: DMs and DDs are maintainers and in some cases, DMs are also uploaders. Debian Contributor seems nice enough, as Christoph Berg already suggested. So where would that leave translators, art people, etc, etc. Aren't they contributing to? Contributors

Re: On terminology

2010-07-06 Thread Martin Ågren
On 6 July 2010 12:56, Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl wrote: On Tuesday 06 July 2010, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: DMs and DDs are maintainers and in some cases, DMs are also uploaders. Debian Contributor seems nice enough, as Christoph Berg already suggested. So where would that leave translators, art

Re: About DDs not maintaining packages

2010-07-06 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
On Saturday 03 July 2010 03:48:39 Ana Guerrero wrote: Quoting a small paragraph of the loong email: On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 07:01:18PM +0200, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: (There are more official Debian Developers in that city but they didn't reply to the calls, and they

Re: On terminology

2010-07-06 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Tue Jul 06 12:56, Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 06 July 2010, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: DMs and DDs are maintainers and in some cases, DMs are also uploaders. Debian Contributor seems nice enough, as Christoph Berg already suggested. So where would that leave translators, art people, etc,

Re: On terminology

2010-07-06 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Martin Ågren martin.ag...@gmail.com [2010-07-06 13:28:31 CEST]: On 6 July 2010 12:56, Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl wrote: Seems to me we've already had this discussion with exactly the same alternatives a few years back. Indeed. What I think Cristoph meant in his first message, but not

Re: Problems with NM Front Desk

2010-07-06 Thread Carsten Hey
* Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo [2010-07-02 19:01 +0200]: [4] Including not acknowledging NMUs (many of them FTBFS), not replying to most (any?) bug reports, not replying when people asked to update the software or orphan it if he was not interested anymore, not replying to my (private)

Re: Problems with NM Front Desk

2010-07-06 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
Hi, First of all, most honest thanks to you Russ, you seem to be the only one concerned really with what I am saying (even reading it). On Sunday 04 July 2010 19:36:02 Russ Allbery wrote: Please try to use a charitable reading of other people's messages when understanding e-mail and, as

Re: Debian Uploader, Debian Contributor : was On terminology

2010-07-06 Thread Ben Finney
Aioanei Rares debian.dev.l...@gmail.com writes: Quoting from the link above : If a renaming take place, will there be also a reform of the membership. And which will come first. As a native English speaker, I read the above as questions. They should have question-mark (?) instead of full-stop

Re: Problems with NM Front Desk

2010-07-06 Thread Hector Oron
Hello Manuel, I would like you not to be so hurt, calm down and listen to people. By rule of thumb nobody in the boat is evil, but there are many misunderstandings which with *pacience and time* will get solved. 2010/7/2 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo manuel.montez...@gmail.com: Another thing,

Re: On terminology

2010-07-06 Thread markus schnalke
[2010-07-06 14:05] Gerfried Fuchs rho...@deb.at * Martin ?gren martin.ag...@gmail.com [2010-07-06 13:28:31 CEST]: [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/10/msg5.html I really would like to see this proposal (or at least something along the lines) to be carried on

Re: Problems with NM Front Desk

2010-07-06 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 03:13:34PM +0200, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: I, as an outsider, don't want to investigate and report on people, in general; I'm just concerned with packages being in a good shape (especially the ones that I know of, and if I can help in any way). well,

Re: About DDs not maintaining packages

2010-07-06 Thread Kartik Mistry
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo manuel.montez...@gmail.com wrote: There's an anual ping for Debian Maintainers, maybe it would be a good idea to do something similar for Debian Developers, which AFAIK there's no such thing.  Any task can be better planned if you

Re: Problems with NM Front Desk

2010-07-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Patrick Schoenfeld schoenf...@debian.org wrote: And that is already wrong and (for now!) IMHO disqualifying you from beeing a DD. The point is, we want our DDs to take some responsibility for the ideals and goals of the project and to be trustworthy. That is

Re: Problems with NM Front Desk

2010-07-06 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 07/06/2010 02:24 PM, Carsten Hey wrote: * Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo [2010-07-02 19:01 +0200]: [4] Including not acknowledging NMUs (many of them FTBFS), not replying to most (any?) bug reports, not replying when people asked to update the software or orphan it if he was not interested

Re: Problems with NM Front Desk

2010-07-06 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
Hi, Firs of all: for people who are going to reply me from now on: Please don't make me repeat the same thing a dozen times, it's boring for me to have to do so and for people reading. So if you're going to tell you opinon about whether you consider that I made effort enough or not to apply

Re: Problems with NM Front Desk

2010-07-06 Thread Felipe Sateler
On 06/07/10 10:09, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: some stuff about Manuel not being ready for DD status AFAICT, none of this justifies silently removing someone from the NM database. -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Maintainers/Discussion (on terminology)

2010-07-06 Thread Henri Le Foll
the page http://wiki.debian.org/Maintainers/Discussion has been updated with what had been said this morning. Feel free to change it. I don't know yet how to make the distinction in this page between the renaming discussion and the reform of the membership. Thanks to Aioanei Rares and Ben

Re: Problems with NM Front Desk

2010-07-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 06 Jul 2010, Felipe Sateler wrote: On 06/07/10 10:09, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: some stuff about Manuel not being ready for DD status AFAICT, none of this justifies silently removing someone from the NM database. I can't speak for the NM team, but if he was asked to go through DM

Re: Problems with NM Front Desk

2010-07-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 06 July 2010, Raphael Hertzog wrote: I can't speak for the NM team, but if he was asked to go through DM first (and that's what I understood), I could understand that his NM application got removed for now. This is the thing I'm having some problem with in the discussion so far. Is

Re: Problems with NM Front Desk

2010-07-06 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 06 Jul 2010, Frans Pop wrote: Is it actually OK for FD to demand that candidates go through DM before applying for DD, or as part of the NM process? If the FD isn't fairly confident that someone has enough experience in Debian to make occupying an AM's time and taking slotes and time

Re: Problems with NM Front Desk

2010-07-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 06 July 2010, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 06 Jul 2010, Frans Pop wrote: Is it actually OK for FD to demand that candidates go through DM before applying for DD, or as part of the NM process? If the FD isn't fairly confident that someone has enough experience in Debian to make

Re: Problems with NM Front Desk

2010-07-06 Thread Felipe Sateler
On 06/07/10 15:11, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Tue, 06 Jul 2010, Felipe Sateler wrote: On 06/07/10 10:09, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: some stuff about Manuel not being ready for DD status AFAICT, none of this justifies silently removing someone from the NM database. I can't speak for the NM

Re: Problems with NM Front Desk

2010-07-06 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 06 Jul 2010, Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 06 July 2010, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 06 Jul 2010, Frans Pop wrote: Is it actually OK for FD to demand that candidates go through DM before applying for DD, or as part of the NM process? If the FD isn't fairly confident that

Re: Problems with NM Front Desk

2010-07-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 06 July 2010, Don Armstrong wrote: The FD can say that someone isn't ready to enter the NM process, though, and then provide specific suggestions as to how they can demonstrate to the FD that they are ready to enter the NM process. I'm not disagreeing with that. But that's a

Re: Problems with NM Front Desk

2010-07-06 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
Hello, On Tuesday 06 July 2010 21:11:00 Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Tue, 06 Jul 2010, Felipe Sateler wrote: On 06/07/10 10:09, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: some stuff about Manuel not being ready for DD status AFAICT, none of this justifies silently removing someone from the NM database.

Re: Problems with NM Front Desk

2010-07-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes: On Tue, 06 Jul 2010, Felipe Sateler wrote: AFAICT, none of this justifies silently removing someone from the NM database. I can't speak for the NM team, but if he was asked to go through DM first (and that's what I understood), I could understand

Re: Problems with NM Front Desk

2010-07-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 02:01:01PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 06 Jul 2010, Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 06 July 2010, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 06 Jul 2010, Frans Pop wrote: Is it actually OK for FD to demand that candidates go through DM before applying for DD, or as part