On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 05:29:54PM +0300, Halil Demirezen wrote: > Debian Maintainers are becoming too elite. However, outside world becoming > more excluded. And Debian finally is becoming so obsolete. Everybody has an opinion on this matter. I don't usually even bother posting mine, but here goes anyway.... Your conclusion that long DAM wait times leads to slow releases has little or no basis in fact. You do not need to have completed the NM process to contribute to Debian. In fact, I believe the whole DAM process would be more effective if we *required* that you made non-trivial contributions to Debian *before* the DAM would create an account for you. Additionally (strictly my opinion here, others will undoubtedly disagree), I believe that Debian's long release times are caused by it being too big, rather than not big enough. Too many developers, too many packages, too many architectures, all that. There are signs that others feel the same way (e.g. the number of people who complain every time somebody submits an ITP for yet another web based image gallery or something like that seems to be going up). So, if you want to see Debian release sooner, go fix some RC bugs. You don't need to have completed the NM process to do that, and doing that might actually help you get through the NM process quicker. noah
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