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Re: how long does it take be assigned as a packager ?



James Troup wrote:
> 
> Top tips for becoming a new maintainer in a swift fashion:
> 
> (1) RTFM.  Give us the information it tells you to in the dev-ref; you
>     failed miserably to obey this rule.
> 
> (2) Don't bitch about us on a public list; it's not going to shame us
>     into action - quite the reverse.  Feel free to bitch at
>     new-maintainer@debian.org if you've been waiting a while without
>     reply; we get a lot of email (both in terms of size and numbers)
>     and we're human so mail does get lost on occasion.
> 
> (3) *Definitely* don't bitch when you've been waiting 2 days, it's
>     rare for a new maintainer to be processed in under a week, let
>     alone 2 days.
> 
> [These are off the top of my head, and only semi-serious, sorry, but
> I'm seriously underwhelmed by someone who has the nerve to complain
> about not getting an answer in 2 days when said person didn't even
> bother to read the manual and give us the information we need]
> 

I will try to be more careful in the future. Please accept my
apologizes.

Regards,

Ionutz


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