RE: orphaning my packages
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, chanka perera wrote:
> True even to find a advocate it's not easy and countries like Sri Lanka
> don't have any advocate at all then what happened to people live in
> these countries ?
Would you mind referring me to where it says that you must have physical
contact with your advocate. I cannot recall ever reading that.
You may be confusing advocation with identification - a current member of
Debian must sign your GPG key in order for your identity to be verified (as
in, you are who you say you are). That is a potential problem, but there
have been ways around this in the past (although none of them strike me as
being particularly wonderful). But we're not discussing identification,
only advocation. Which, IMO, is an excellent way to cut down on cruft in
the NM queue by providing a requirement for informal AM-like activities
before the applicant gets into the queue and has no hope of being up to
speed.
> This NM process has to be updated if some one can joing to ongoing
> development (something sending bugs and testing process) I'll work I think
> because from that advocate can get to know the a new comer and his
> ablities
That's the usual way to do it. People work on stuff on the side, usually (I
think these days) having something in the archive via sponsorship. If
they're doing a decent job of maintainership-by-proxy, then it advocacy
should be a natural extension of that, surely?
Of course, having a package in the archive by sponsorship shouldn't be a
replacement for advocacy - DDs are not just package maintainers. But the
DDs any prospective NM work with should be able to advocate for the NM if
they think the NM should be a DD. I don't know how many people, having
never done any work for/with the project, would want to/should become
developers...
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Matthew Palmer, Debian Developer
mpalmer@debian.org http://www.debian.org
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