[D-m-team] Giving people time to react (Re: debian-maintainers_1.17_i386.changes ACCEPTED)

[Joerg Jaspert]

On 11279 March 1977, Anthony Towns wrote:

>> I'm all for adding Adam to the DM keyring, but as a general rule, I'd
>> like the following rule to be added to the DM policies:
>> * Between the DM's application on the debian-newmaint list, or the
>>   filing of the respective bug on the debian-maintainers package
>>   (whatever is earlier), a full week should pass before a
>>   debian-maintainer package is uploaded that adds this applicant's
>>   key.
> So far we've not done that and not had any problems -- the only person
> that has been added and then had objections was removed before they had
> the opportunity to upload. Adding delays to solve problems that don't
> exist isn't a good idea; and every DM that does get added is advocated
> by a DD already.

Not having had a problem doesn't mean we should wait for one.

Waiting a week may seem long, but actually isn't. But if you really dont
want a week - make it 3 or 4 days. It doesn't hurt the future DM to wait
the *few* days more *and* leaves other DDs the option to raise concerns.

And that there *are* sometimes possible DMs where others have concerns
about them getting upload rights is nicely proven in the thread about
Kai.

-- 
bye Joerg
<HE> Joerg knuddeln ist wie mit Skorpionen schlafen.
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