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 See also [#507288](http://bugs.debian.or
  discussions on this topic.
  This makes it very painful to change/switch the Maintainer field because
  people have to update their PTS subscriptions accordingly.
  #### Duplication of work / inconsistency between the DDPO and the PTS
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 associated commitments. That way it woul
  that cannot be well maintained because the set of maintainers do not cover
  all the tasks that must be assumed to have a properly maintained package.
- #### Replacing maintenance mailing lists
+ #### Replace maintenance mailing lists
  Packaging teams often separate the mailing list that gets the bug traffic and
  other notifications from their main discussion mailing list. This new
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 interesting case to detect is when sever
  all of them are MIA or marked as not being available for Debian (busy/in
  vacation).
+ #### Provide new services to packaging teams
+ Given that this infrastructure would have native support for packaging
+ teams, it would also be a good place to offer some standardized services
+ for them.
+ For example, one of the central tool for teams are their VCS and it can be
+ useful for teams to be able to monitor the state of their package in the
+ VCS. The [PET](http://pet.alioth.debian.org/) tool could be adapted,
+ integrated and made available to all teams by default.
+ #### Replace WNPP's RFH, RFA, O
+ Since the infrastructure already stores the information about who is
+ maintaining what, it only makes sense to extend it to provide the
+ list of orphaned packages (i.e. packages without maintainers).
+ RFH should be replaced by a system where the help request is better
+ formalized so that we can better direct new contributors in places
+ where their skills would be well used. Instead of just requesting
+ help, you could request:
+ - a new maintainer (to replace you, i.e. RFA)
+ - a supplementary co-maintainer
+ - a bug triager
+ - a C/Python/Perl/… programmer (you should be able to choose the programming
+   language)
+ Each request also documents whether there's an associated offer of
+ "mentorship" associated to the help request. Of course, there would
+ also be a free form description to give more details about what's
+ expected.
+ #### Replace the LowThresholdNmu list
+ The [LowThresholdNmu](http://wiki.debian.org/LowThresholdNmu) wiki page
+ is a hack to let people know when NMU are welcome and not frowned
+ upon. This information should be properly stored in the database
+ and it should be associated to each package.
  High-level design of the new infrastructure
  -------------------------------------------
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 on the critical path for all the real-ti
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 on the critical path for all the real-ti
  ### Using a modern framework for web development
  DDPO is implemented in PHP. The PTS uses a mix of Perl, Python, XSLT and
- shell scripts. While both works very well and are reliable, we can do much
+ shell scripts. While both works very well and are reliable, the diversity
- better by using a modern framework for web development (starting with
+ of the tools and the fact that some are not widely known (e.g. XSLT)
- internationalization of the web interface).
+ seriously limit the set of contributors who are able to hack on all the
+ parts of the infrastructure.
+ With a modern framework for web development, we enlarge the set of people
+ who are able to help us develop and maintain this infrastructure. It also
+ offers us a proper separation between presentation and code, so that it's
+ easier to let web designers integrate this service with the general
+ look&feel of the various Debian websites. On top of this, we get a fully
+ internationalized website for free.
  ### API for data export
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 Acronyms
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 Acronyms
   * BTS: [Bug Tracking System](http://bugs.debian.org)
   * UDD: [Ultimate Debian Database](http://udd.debian.org)
   * DD: Debian Developer
+  * WNPP: [Work Needing and Prospective Packages](http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/)
+  * RFH: Request For Help
+  * RFA: Request For Adoption
+  * O: Orphaned
+  * NMU: Non-Maintainer Upload
  Changes
  -------
  * 2011-01-13: Initial draft by Raphaël Hertzog.
+ * 2011-01-28: Integrate feedback from debian-qa@lists.debian.org.

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