Re: Maintainership.
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 03:59:27PM -0500, David B. Harris wrote:
> Good day :)
>
> I'm rather interested in becoming a Debian maintainer(don't immediately
> reply with "go to www.debian.org's 'Developer's Corner' and start
> reading; finish reading the email ;). Anyways, I've read the various
> docs, familiarized myself with the various procedures, so on and so
> forth. I actually finished making somewhat-policy-compliant Mozilla 0.8
> packages a day before Kitame released his(mine look more like Myth's
> pre-release debs at pandora.debian.org/~robot101). Anyways, I'm going to
> be joining the army soon-ish, and I was wondering if people would be
> irritated if I became a Debian maintainer, then didn't do anything for a
> number of months(maybe a year)?
Actually yes, most people would be irritated if you were MIA from the
get go. I would suggest just helping along with various non-DD things
(bug reports, testing, etc..) before becoming a developer, until you
can allot some time to do things.
FYI, just a warning, you may have opened a can of worms with this email
:)
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