Re: Question for all candidates: handle debian-admin more openly

2006-03-13 Thread Steve Langasek
[redirecting to -devel where this belongs] On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 12:11:59PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > -- > > > Question to the release and archive people: Is there such a > > > requirement? Will such architectures inde

Re: question for all candidates

2006-03-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 02:14:01AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 03:47:35PM +0200, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > > Could these mails be required to have a valid GPG signature (either > > for a key in a public keyserver or a DD key)? This would eliminate the > > spam problem (almost

Improving keyring maintenance (was Re: question for all candidates)

2006-03-10 Thread Nathanael Nerode
If you don't want to read the rant, skip to the bottom where I volunteer to help Anthony Towns wrote: >In the mail to the DPL I mentioned above, James outlined three fairly >significant technical changes that could be implemented to make the >job easier, and could be done by anyone, without r

Re: question for all candidates

2006-03-10 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
[Ways to improve keyring maintenance] On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 23:25 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > The second was to get rt setup to, uh, track requests -- it's waiting > on the first thing (since rt sends auto-replies, and auto-replies to > spam is bad, mmmkay), and possibly also lacks a debian.org

Re: Question for all candidates: handle debian-admin more openly

2006-03-10 Thread Sven Luther
Let's move this to elsewhere than -vote for technical discussion, d-ppc and d-ppc64 are good places for this. On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 02:21:12AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 01:03:47PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Are bruckner and voltaire overloaded or do they lack se

Re: question for all candidates

2006-03-09 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 03:47:35PM +0200, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > Could these mails be required to have a valid GPG signature (either > for a key in a public keyserver or a DD key)? This would eliminate the > spam problem (almost) entirely. keyring-maint is the address for problems with your key --

Re: question for all candidates

2006-03-09 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
[Moving this to -devel, please reply only there, this is not really voting related stuff. We are talking about things to improve keyring maintenance, for those not reading -vote.] Anthony Towns writes: > So first one was the spam problem, keyring-maint is a well-known address, > and mails that ar