Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@raw.no>]

* Colin Watson 

| On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 02:19:29AM -0500, Alexander Winston wrote:
| > On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 23:17, David Starner wrote:
| > > If you were a Debian developer, you could fix this by adopting or at least
| > > NMUing important programs that were unmaintained. Is it easier to stand
| > > on the outside and complain then actually work to making it better?
| > 
| > But it may take many months or even years before he reaches official
| > Debian developer status... Could anything be done about that, perhaps?
| 
| He *was* a developer; he resigned some time ago. No doubt he could be
| fast-tracked back in if he were interested, since he's already
| demonstrated the skills etc.

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/debian-devel-announce-200305/msg00006.html

: The 'emeritus' state is for people who voluntarily retire.  Their
: accounts are locked and their keys are moved to a separate keyring.
: Their email will continue to work for 6 months[a].  They lose vote,
: upload and -private reading privileges.

[...]

: People in 'emeritus' or even 'disabled' can come back at anytime
: without going through new-maintainer; provided they can prove they
: control the key(s) associated with the account.

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