Re: orphaning my packages
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 08:03:57AM +0600, 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 ?
The advocate procedure didn't exist when I joined, but I'm prepared to
bet that if it had existed then the person I'd have asked to advocate me
wouldn't have lived in the same country as me, and I still haven't met
at least one of the people who'd have been a pretty good candidate for
me to ask. Well before I joined the project, I was communicating with
other developers and doing my best to get involved.
Also, I don't believe I've met any of the people I've advocated (unless
I'm forgetting somebody), and if they live in the same country as me
it's only by chance.
The only case where living close to other developers matters is for
getting your GPG key signed, and that can be worked around in extreme
cases. For everything else, forget about geography; you "meet" most
other developers via the net.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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