2007-07-26
Re: voting on sponsorship
Joey, I see a huge difference between voting on the current DM proposal and your virtual (sorry, I can’t remember a better word for it) voting on sponsoring uploads. Debian Developers were always allowed to upload any package they saw as fitting into Debian (though there were no guarantees for these packages to actually being included). Also, NMUs are OK if the maintainer agreed. So all they (seemingly) did was putting a different maintainer address into the control file. However, at least in theory, the sponsors were still responsible for their upload if it turned out fishy.
The DM proposal (don’t get me wrong there, I generally support the idea, I just don’t like the way it is implemented in the proposal) is shifting this responsibility from the sponsor onto the shoulders of the DM, which is a good thing. However I think it doubles some of the work the NM queue already needs done, so my proposal would be not to have it as a completely seperate path for a contributor, but instead see it integrated into the NM process. Wether it would mean adding a new maintainer to the DM keyring after he had an advocate (which is pretty near to the current proposal) or after an AM was assigned and checked some basic things (which I would prefer) doesn’t make a lot of difference to me.
