[Letsencrypt-devel] DM application of Peter Colberg

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 06:07:59PM -0400, Peter Colberg wrote:
> That said, I can think of quite a few metrics to evaluate maintainer
> ability based on golang packaging:

[ reflowing the text… ]

> to which extent has the maintainer collaborated with upstream,
> e.g., to motivate them to tag releases, to file pull requests
> for forked packages so that the original packages can be used in Debian,
> to fix their test suite, to ask for license clarification, etc.

these are all social abilities more than anything.

> how carefully has debian/copyright been composed;

These are not really something that would give me an idea of the
techinical knowledge somebody has.  Licenses foo is surely something
important, but how do I know that you're able to fix bugs in your
package to a certain extent _correctly_.  Part of what a sponsor
(usually) does is reviewing the changes, and see if they makes sense,
and avoid to upload clearly buggy things.


Mind you: I don't want to discurage you, just that I feel much more
confident with people who open themselves to other parts of debian work.
But then, a the DM status is thought for people who are only interested
in the restricted circle of their packages, and are not interested in
the bigger world; that's cool, but *I* still need more proof :)

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