| Don Armstrong 2007-09-26, 7:21 pm |
| On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote:
> Neil Williams wrote:
>
> And the work of non-DD contributors isn't?
Not in the same way, no. Most non-DD contributions that actually
affect the archive always go through a DD gatekeeper. At the end of
the day, that DD is the person who is actually responsible.
> We need to trust in that the people, who ever got DD, are trust
> worth. If we do not, then a community and the good work like it is
> can't be kept up.
That's actually backwards from what I've said. My argument is not that
DDs should be trusted, but that DDs are in a position where they can
abuse that trust. The longer they've been a DD (and the more work they
do) the less and less likely they are to do so (at least
intentionally).
> It is just not realizable to ongoing examine if DD stayed actual
> with current policies or their interest.
It's easier to tell[1] which developers are current with what is
happening in Debian (assuming they're active) than it is to tell
whether an NM applicant is.
Don Armstrong
1: by looking at the packages they upload, the bugs that they have
open, and the bugs which have been filed
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