about the suggested "Debian maintainers"

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:44:19 +0200
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As one of the most often made arguments for the current Debian General Resolution about the introduction of DMs seems to be that "finding a sponsor is hard", I want to shift discussion a bit in the other direction: How about more review instead of less?

Currently only sponsored people have the privilege of having a human looking at their packages before upload. We normal DDs only have some automated tools other people wrote for us (lintian, linda, piuparts) and some self written ones (checking diffs, comparing to previous revisions and so on) and have to hope we spot all problems not yet detectable by machines ourself. What do teams and people with comaintainers do? Any chance one of the other can look over the package you generated? Is there any chance to get something like that for the rest of us? (Ideally without drawing too much manpower from the sponsorees, though in my experience slowing that down might also help, there was more than one package I could not sponsor because someone already uploaded it before even being able to write half the list of obvious problems). Perhaps some ring to review each other packages (of course best with some classification. There is often not that much sense to have someone not liking it looking into cdbs packages or vice versa).