Re: About NM and Next Release
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Chris Cheney wrote:
Not to toot my own horn, but I was accepted in under one week. I took 2 weeks
to read up on everything, then after I sent in my app, less than a week later
I was accepted.
The shortness can probably be attributed to me actually doing work. This was
during the libc5->libc6 transition, and I was recompiling 3-4 packages each
day, and posting nightly summaries on -devel(this list). I wasn't hounding
DSA to accept me, I was just showing what work I was doing. Others on the
list, however, were clamouring for my acceptance.
Of course, after I was accepted, I stopped doing 3-4 recompiles a day; I don't
know what that means.
(I was accepted in January, 1998).
ps: A prospective developer should let his/her actions speak for themself.
Countiously hounding those in charge, or only doing one little bit(a minor
inconsequential package), and then demanding your *right* to join debian,
*will* get you ignored.
pps: If you are expecting delays, don't get frustrated. Continue to do work.
Do more work. Proof to everyone that you can be a valuable member to the
project. If you get delayed, and then go and stomp off, pout, and say I quit,
we will ignore you.
ppps: Being a debian developer is a thankless job. You seldom get positive
responses from the users who must interact with your work. If you can't even
take the heat, or lack of response, before becoming a developer, then you
should perhaps look elsewhere.
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