On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 01:28:37AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 06:22:14PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > You realize that the only duty of an advocate is to send a PGP-signed > > email saying a few words about how they know the applicant and why they > > think the applicant should be accepted into the NM queue? > Well, I was told on IRC today that you should only advocate somebody if > you have reasonable confidence that he might *pass* the NM process, not > only be accepted. > Well, those people were Application Managers and I gues it's fair enough > that we don't put too much unneccesary work on them by advocating people > who are not really ready. Yes, thank you for pointing this out. The NM process is a process of *examination*, not of preparation. How can someone be ready for the Debian "final exam" if he doesn't know any developers? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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