Re: long term goals of debian membership
Just an idea....
With all the recent whining^Wdiscussion about 'low-quality NMs',
maybe a there is a way to winnow them down some.
You want them to contribute more than just a few packages? OK, here
is a possible fix: Bring them in via QA. They maintain orphaned
packages for QA, and fix bugs for QA, and do NMUs for QA. All
supervised/mentored by the (increased?) QA staff.
A good training ground, and a good place to contribute. Compare
this to the proverbial "mail room".
[I would not have minded coming in this way myself.]
When the QA folks are satisifed that the NM is clueful, and has
"contributed" to the project, they are turned loose as DDs, to
work on whatever they please....
Comments? (`mv flameage /dev/null`)
Cheers!
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