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Re: long term goals of debian membership



>>"Joey" == Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:

 Joey> Mariusz Przygodzki wrote:
 >> When I am reading such sentences like above and below then I come out to the 
 >> conlusion that some official Debian developers never were applicants, at 
 >> least in their current life. They think probably they were born with the 
 >> Social Contract in a left hand and with the DMUP in a right one.

 Joey> I'm sure that if I had had to go through the cr*p new maintainers do
 Joey> these days, I wouldn't have bothered.

 Joey> Me: "I think I'd like to be a developer in this `debian' thing I
 Joey>      installed yesterday. Here are 5 or 10 trivial things I'd like to 
 Joey>      work on."

 Joey> Bruce: "Ok, here's your password."

	I think I joined by uploading my first package (make) -- after
 arranging with its previous maintainer, of course. However, when I
 came up with the radical idea of creating a package to create kernel
 images programmatically (rather than creating each image
 semi-manually), I was told to get my image packages ratified by Simon
 Shapiro, the then kernel-image maintainer.

	So I had to get my kernel-package packages sponsored by
 another develper even though I was maintaining other packages ;-)

	And no, I never went through the NM process (my key wasn't
 even signed by anyone known to the project back then)

	manoj
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