MOTU Application for Stefan Ebner (sebner)

Stephan Hermann sh at sourcecode.de
Tue Nov 11 10:14:38 GMT 2008


Moins,

On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 14:02 -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Monday 10 November 2008 04:34, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> > Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > > Do you also consider the workload sync requests impose on archive admins
> > > and is the benifit of the sync worth taking these people away from other
> > > work?
> >
> > I believe there are plans to move the ability to sync packages to
> > developers (we already have it indirectly). That will remove the workload
> > from archive admins.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/soyuz/+spec/sync-workflows
> 
> That's true, but I think it makes the judgement of the MOTU considering such a 
> sync even more important.  Will people think less hard about a sync if it's a 
> click away than they would a regular upload?

IMHO a Sync has the same consequences as an upload.
You need to check the package you think it's a sync, buildwise and
sometimes as well functionwise.

Mostly, it's a matter of interpretating the debian changelog
correctly...

But yes, OCS (One Click Syncs) are most propably a good shot to break
something.

Regards,

\sh




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