On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 10:08:37PM +0300, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@raw.no> writes: > > They do. They just get to wait less, since at some point (at least > > for debian-installer), we get tired of applying their patches and give > > them a CVS account. After that has gone on for a while, we get tired > > of uploading and checking their packages, so we pester the DAM to get > > the account created. > > So, you're saying that the NM process is redundant. I could get DD > status by simply contributing enough until enough people like my stuff > and get tired of constant uploads - why should I try to go through the > NM process at all? As a note of reference, particularly to NM-queue folks: this is more or less exactly what used to happen, so far as I can make out from statements by longtime DDs and archive mails. You got to be a DD by submitting patches to bugs, doing work that others considered valuble (in more than one case, AFAICT, rebuilding packages a la the C++ transition, with uploads done by something much resembling today's sponsorship), and generally just being around enough until someone poked the folks in charge and said "make <foo> a Developer". I suspect this is a large part of why many of the older developers don't see this as a problem, innately - I also suspect that they might hold a different opinion if they spent 8-12 months in that situation. Or perhaps not. -- Joel Baker <fenton@debian.org>
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