-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA384 Dominik George dixit:
>Please disreagrd what tg said as it is stupid. Okay, now let me explain this to the public: I was Cc’d in this ITP, which, being a DD, put me into zugzwang (this appears to be an actual English word; it forced my hand). We discussed this in IRC, and I can only review a package and its prospective maintainer from what they write, and possibly, personal skills. While I still consider Dominik as friend, I still do not think he should, at this time, be the sole main‐ tainer of a Debian package of software written in C, at least. Another DD has helped me in that IRC session and even went so far as to state he should not even be a co-maintainer, although I do not think that. (Telling us now we should not have taken several utterances of his seriously is the easy thing to do, but I am not sure it reflects good on him.) Nevertheless, I will not sponsor this package, and while at some point in the future I think Dominik should be re-evaluated, his unwillingness to be responsive to _two_ DDs’ opinions, at least one of which he wanted as prospective sponsor, while on the other hand having an attitude of expecting us to sponsor his package and possibly mentoring him without having asked politely first, blocks that for the time being. All I do here is state my evaluation conclusion, as otherwise, since I was Cc’d, I would be guilty by inaction, and ask any other sponsor to reconsider _for the time being_, and ask Dominik to seek a mentor via the proper channels first, and not be as impatient. This is with my DD hat on, and considering the overall quality of Debian. I am of the opinion that a package maintainer should at least be willing to fix bugs in a package and able to decide when to ask someone else, including upstream. My conclusion also stems from the entire review session, not so much from the source package he sent to me. I would probably have uploaded it with minor required changes, such as fixing the repak‐ kaged .orig.tar.gz, but a non-DD/DM should not be the deciding factor whether something gets uploaded as-is, changed or not at all. Before I was a DM, I went through quite a number of cycles with my sponsors and, while annoying, it wasn’t for nothing. I will concede one request of Dominik: this is not publicly telling all DDs that he is unfit for package maintenance in general, or for eternity. A fellow DD and me just think he should not be the (sole) maintainer of b43-tools right now, and within a short-term future. bye, //mirabilos - -- In traditional syntax ' is ignored, but in c99 everything between two ' is handled as character constant. Therefore you cannot use ' in a preproces- sing file in c99 mode. -- Ragge No faith left in ISO C99, undefined behaviour, etc. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MirBSD) iQIcBAEBCQAGBQJPeH8FAAoJEHa1NLLpkAfggusQAK5b463iGAUV0wxF4EaqHbdF SHBg3H14v9tP2Fv4kpUwR69zZvbYD9ESGmqgg4d3ig6IpcYIvE5BQOygYXKbgpXw L+x7h6TGcRNpeqbxQ995G5tM0MWl+AzRcv5Vvj5SGZHrwxo7tZY88XJB9UFzKNFV HD3/MKytS0yIrVDxdTpVHg1FKjISl3mEEe2JJGT3mULOxDSofTdRz5zvHCVSvuOH UaYVD01Xczg2y9+2uog3thaZaHgrMW2+dXeXblYv1FYTHJ8xF2DAePkq/oy+sB4B ZTLZ92VRzpbVq2zcZmQntNIW05EYGfmpazi32bViEKOS4ECfWxGSIznBbG7A4gPY e2qVtZuRVzYC51i4zyeJdfENh0ViGd3y/hv+95BPJnVA79Y4g3BlVKBx2IYEx30h pajpMSLYDL+gcHt8C+SihqRjSEdocNVvksN4ekCQr3esqgojRhd7xwib3KCJ2fCB ZFWdSUHXNRhoJzX+ishHFcs81K1ShCqX0hlxVXJHwojG2lDu2Er7umSDSLgdwoBr wpoWTiiug8ccQk0qK9VfwjIKmKNCOQtfg+c2oGpZadJJjTJ/64zlKKGW1u/7kgFf H2DLWz9X+y6RlmX+ObGja82vpscsTaMtPDNly+SXzJbl36HfzPFBymYHlKy5TEph xnTITlIQG62u7Ij96E+W =Yz38 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pine.bsm.4.64l.1204011602230.6...@herc.mirbsd.org
