Re: Work-needing packages report for Jul 11, 2003
* Kalle Kivimaa
| 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.
Er, no? The DAM will say «well, he'll have to complete the AM checks
before I'll create his account», then. So far, I haven't seen anybody
who is both contributing a lot and has applied for NM but not
completed the AM checks. I don't know about you, but the AM checks
took a couple of hours for me, and most of the time was spent waiting
for my AM to respond, not writing the answers to his questions.
| > Sure, just whine.
|
| An NM can do little more if he sees a problem in the Debian way of
| doing things.
You can't change a system from the outside. Not even with a foot in
the door.
[...]
| It seems to me that I belong to the class of people Debian Project
| expects to contribute via bug reports and patches, not as a DD.
I am not the debian project. I am one developer, and I'm trying to
tell you how the _current_ system works.
--
Tollef Fog Heen ,''`.
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' :
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