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Re: Guy Maor is unquestioned czar of FTP

On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:

> I made the point on debian-devel that Guy is in charge of FTP. Bill Mitchell
> talked up a whole lot about it while Guy was on vacation, but the decision
> structure works this way:
> 
> 1. I have a few policy points about archive organization.
> 2. Guy Maor takes those one or two points and makes all other FTP-related
>    decisions.
> 3. Discussion among the developers is welcome, but Guy may not have much
>    time to do anything about it in the near future.
> 4. I trust Guy to do his job. He's done _excellently_ so far, and is one
>    of the great un-sung heroes of Debian as far as I'm concerned.

I fully agree to these points. 

However, the last four weeks (while Guy was on vacation) have shown that
he has really an important job to do in the project and thus, he should
have a "backup person" like everyone else here.

I know that the archive and all those nice scripts are complicated and
that's why I think a "backup archive maintainer" is _essential_. Just
consider that Guy is unavailable for a few weeks (either accidentially or
planned) and we have to remove a package with security bugs, install an
important package to "stable" or whatever.

If noone else volunteers for the job, I would offer to do this. Note,
that the backup maintainer will probably never touch anything. He/she
should know the scripts on master, how to perform the standard operations,
and have archive admin permissions so that he/she could help when Guy is
unavailable. (I'm already familiar with some of the archive maintainance
jobs since I change a lot of things on my mirror for my Debian CD-ROMs.)


Thanks,

Chris

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