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? Frankly, the ideal applicant is one who has been doing this for a while (and they'll probably run through the system in a week or three). They're damn rare; most applicants don't even have a package in the archive at the time they are assigned an AM - which is quite annoying. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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