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The role of the Debian ftpmasters

Posted Apr 8, 2010 11:53 UTC (Thu) by tcarrez (subscriber, #53314)
Parent article: The role of the Debian ftpmasters

> The job is unique to Debian, in that other distributions don't have an
> exact analog to the ftpmasters team.

Ubuntu has an ArchiveAdmins team, that does precisely the same thing. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArchiveAdministration

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Posted Apr 15, 2010 4:48 UTC (Thu) by donbarry (guest, #10485) [Link]

Precisely? In Debian, the ftpmasters act according to their judgment to discharge
their duties for the benefit and good of the project.

In Ubuntu, the ftpmasters act according to Shuttleworth's whims and schedules
and serve at his pleasure.