[D-m-team] Cleaning Uploaders -- a mistake?

[Daniel Leidert]

I would like to take this comment and simply add a comment/proposal:

Am Mittwoch, den 16.01.2008, 18:05 +0100 schrieb Joerg Jaspert:
> On 11266 March 1977, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> 
> > One approach out that I see is to revert the DM-part of the group policy
> > and instead refuse to use DM-Upload-Allowed in all our packages. AFAIK
> > it is set only for one package -- libdevice-cdio-perl and Tincho has not
> > yet taken advantage of it.
> 
> Nice practical demo how hackish and not thought out the whole DM thing
> is...

Well, it's currently in Beta, so issues should be reported, right?

What about the following: Add another field to the changeset, called
packages. The filed should be filled with the package, that DM should be
allowed to upload. DMs should (a) already been listed as (co)-maintainer
of these packages at PTS or (b) advocates have to agree and explain, why
a package should be added to the list of packages a DM is allowed to
upload, even if he is not already listed.

Uploaded packages by DMs should then be checked for DM-Upload-Allowed
set by a sponsored upload, the correct key and the correct package. So
DMs are restricted to packages and things like "DMs could add other DMs
to DM-Upload-Allowed packages" should not happen.

What is your opinion?

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Regards, Daniel