Re: long term goals of debian membership

[John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu>]

On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Ben Collins wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 09:25:37PM -0700, John Galt wrote:
> > On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, 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.
> > 
> > I suggested this months ago, and was shot down.  If you can make this
> > fly, go for it!
> 
> Gee, you complain because I suggest ppl do work before they become a
> maintainer and here you are agreeing with it!? What kind of trickery is
> this?!
> 
Just me being my usual asshole self :) 

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