Re: ssl security desaster (was: Re: SSH keys: DSA vs RSA)

[Thibaut Paumard <paumard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Le 15 mai 08 à 20:17, Mike Bird a écrit :

> Nevertheless, non-DD's can and do help by filing bug reports and
> patches (upstream is best), helping people on d-u, and offering
> constructive advice to DDs.

And maintaining packages! It can be long to find a sponsor for your  
first package (especially if it's a very specialized software no DD  
uses), but you don't need to go through NM to become a (co-) 
maintainer. If you feel the itch, please step forward of adopt an  
orphaned package, as you noted there's a large pool to choose from.  
If you look a package with a "request for help", you're sponsor is  
found already: your prospective comaintainer.

Besides, many packages are orphaned because they are obsolete. If  
nobody adopts them and they get too buggy, they'll be terminated  
eventually. The only alternative would be to remove them right away  
when the maintainer feels he doesn't care anymore, but this would be  
worse (unless the package was so obsolete that only the maintainer  
still used it).

Cheers, Thibaut (DM, not DD).


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