Updating the Debian Systems Administration (DSA) Delegation

Andreas Tille <[email protected]> Sat, 30 Nov 2024 06:55:55 +0100
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Dear Debian Developers,

I'm pleased to announce the appointment of Philipp Kern to the
Debian Systems Administration (DSA) team. Welcome, Philipp!

This delegation is able to spend some Debian money without requiring DPL
pre-approval, see the budget section below for more details.


Delegation
==========

I appoint the following as members of the Debian Systems Administration
Team (DSA):

 - Adam D. Barratt (adsb) 
 - Aurélien Jarno (aurel32)
 - Héctor Orón Martínez (zumbi)
 - Julien Cristau (jcristau)
 - Luca Filipozzi (lfilipoz)
 - Paul Wise (pabs)
 - Peter Palfrader (weasel)
 - Philipp Kern (pkern)
 - Pierre-Elliott Bécue (peb)
 - Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen)

This delegation is not time-limited.


Task Description
================

Debian System Administrator team members handle the core infrastructure
of the project. They are responsible for tasks including:

 * Maintaining the central user (LDAP) database listing all the Debian
   developers. This includes:

   - Account creation and deletion based on requests from the Debian
     Account Managers

   - Correlation of GPG keys to the according accounts based on requests
     from the Debian Keyring Maintainers

 * Setting up and administering of most Debian-owned machines, ensuring
   that they are kept secure, operational and running

 * Coordinating with local admins of the machines regarding network
   connectivity and (if needed) asking for remote hands

 * Granting required rights to other developers who need them to maintain
   a particular service

 * Handling standard services like the debian.org email alias that each
   developer has or keeping DNS up to date

 * Maintaining the Debian Machine Usage Policies (DMUP), within the
   following limits:

   - The DMUP cannot directly cause the expulsion of a developer from the
     project; it can however propose the developer for expulsion to DAM,
     on the basis of DMUP violation

   - Changes to the DMUP shall be announced to the debian-devel-announce
     mailing list at least 2 months in advance with respect to when they
     are supposed to become effective


Budget
======

The last delegation

  https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2023/02/msg00002.html

included an explicit expense authorization for DSA: The DSA delegation
may make some purchases without additional pre-approval by the DPL. This
includes expenditures for things like shipping costs, cables and
replacement hardware (such as memory, disks, fans, etc), but it could be
anything that DSA may also need in a timely manner.

DSA may make up to 10 of these type of expenses a year up to the value
of €1000 for each expense. For additional or other expenses, the usual
DPL reimbursement processes apply:

https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DPL/Reimbursement

Once DSA has agreed to issue an expense and claim it back, they can
refer to this mail as the pre-approval reference to the trusted
organisation who will handle the reimbursement. The DPL and Treasurer
team must still be CC'd in on the request.

Appendix
========

You can learn more about the activities and responsibilities of the DSA
team here:

  https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DSA

- Andreas Tille, Debian Project Leader
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