On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 05:35:38PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > But concerning the demotion to Debian Maintainer (DM) status, I think > that it is sending a wrong message to the community, that DMs do not > need to hold the same standards of behaviour as Debian Developers (DDs) > do. > > Moreover, when the DM status was proposed in 2007, it was not thought as > a way of punishment for DDs. Even if one of a thousand DM has this > status because of demotion, I think that this completely changes the > balance on how this status serves our project. Instead of being a > positive way towards joining more formally, it becomes an inferior > status. I understand it as a consequence of a DD being a full member while a DM not being a full member but still having some purely packaging-related rights and not as something someone specially wanted. -- WBR, wRAR
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