On jeu, oct 23, 2008 at 02:55:46 +0000, cobaco wrote: > > The more steps you add, the sooner people will stop. IOW less and less > > people will become full DDs, and instead of bringing new blood to the > > project, you bring new blood to the "lesser" contributors and deplete > > the core contributors (sorry to make such distinctions between full DDs, > > lesser or core contributors, it's what people try to make it about, not > > what I think of it). Instead, we should just have a world split in > > three: Users, Contributors (User that reports bugs and does occasionnal > > patches or similar stuff), Developers. Translators, people helping with > > the website and so on, any people that does _regular_ help to the > > project just deserves to be the latter. The fact that it requires NM for > > all of them is pure nonsense. > > I think we agree :) Actually no, because what I wrote deceive what I meant. The fact that it requires the current for of NM for any of them, the ones who will upload packages included, is awful. I hate in Ganneff proposal the fact that it just standardize the 6 months delay to be a DD. It's acknowledging that we suck, and trying nothing to fix the problem. It's unacceptable to me. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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