Re: Q: The processing time for new maintainers
Hi Bo,
On 5 May, Bo Branten wrote:
> In October 1998 I send in an application to become an Debian package
> maintainer for two programs I find usefull. Since then I have asked two
> times what is going on, the last time a few weeks ago Wichert Akkerman
> said he would look in to it.
>
> But since 6 months is a rather long time I think it would be interesting
> if other people post here and tell us how long they had to wait so we can
> get a better picture to know if it is a problem with the new maintainer
> processing and how long you should be prepared to wait.
I had similar problems, but it wasn't because the new maintainer folks
didn't try. I inadvertently gave them a telephone number which I am
generally not at during the day. So, it wasn't for lack of trying on
their part. In fact, they tried several times to reach me, much to
their credit.
-Ossama
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Ossama Othman <othman@cs.wustl.edu>
Center for Distributed Object Computing, Washington University, St. Louis
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