** On Jan 15, Hamish Moffatt scribbled: > On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 01:19:15PM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > > I don't really see the point here. What's the advantage of giving NM's > > only the possibility to upload packages and no (at least no all of to > > all of them) an account a an email address? Will it make the NM > > process easier? No. Will it make it faster? No. > > True, but it might decrease the demand for new maintainership. > Hypothetically there may be people in the queue who are more > interested in a cool email address than in helping Debian. OK, how about adding a point to the NM process where the NM states "I DON'T WANT a @debian.org e-mail address"? Would that be a sufficient exclusion measure for those who wouldn't agree to that? For the third time I will state - I don't want/need the @debian.org address; I would be proud if I had it, but if it's such an important issue, I will resign from having the address. > Regarding working for Debian before being a registered maintainer. > I agree with Marcus that this does deprive the maintainer of > rights, which is not nice. However, if we accept that new maintainer > processing must take a non-zero amount of time, people in the queue I will repeat my question. And what about those who passed the NM process in a snap and now wait for months for DAM to create the account? (Yes, I mean myself) > could be doing some work in that time. There is no need to just > sit and wait. I don't do that and I'm starting to be annoyed by this argument being repeated all over again. http://debian.vip.net.pl/{caudium,caudium-unstable} - also rsynced to two other servers. Is that enough of evidence I _do_ work and create something useful (at least for a few dozen of people - both inside and outside Debian)? marek -- Visit: http://caudium.net - the Caudium WebServer /* A completely unrelated fortune */ Things worth having are worth cheating for.
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