Re: long term goals of debian membership
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 05:48:54PM -0600, Clay Crouch wrote:
> > Just an idea....
> >
> > With all the recent whining^Wdiscussion about 'low-quality NMs',
> > maybe a there is a way to winnow them down some.
> >
> > You want them to contribute more than just a few packages? OK, here
> > is a possible fix: Bring them in via QA. They maintain orphaned
> > packages for QA, and fix bugs for QA, and do NMUs for QA. All
> > supervised/mentored by the (increased?) QA staff.
> >
> > A good training ground, and a good place to contribute. Compare
> > this to the proverbial "mail room".
> >
> > [I would not have minded coming in this way myself.]
> >
> > When the QA folks are satisifed that the NM is clueful, and has
> > "contributed" to the project, they are turned loose as DDs, to
> > work on whatever they please....
>
> Makes perfect sense and kills two proverbial birds with one proverbial
> stone :) We get work on QA, while tuning and hardening our developer
> elite.
Get dwarf to sign off on it and let me get in an "I told you so" and we're
golden... :)
>
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