On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 12:22:35PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 12:16:45PM -0600, Joel Baker wrote: > > > I didn't say that it was unreasonable to expect an NM to go through the > > inconvenience of sponsorship, especially to demonstrate that they had > > their stuff down and knew what they were doing, technically. I said it > > was unreasonable to put a speedbump in the road, *and expect people to > > go full speed*. > > Where did this "full speed" expectation come from? Yes, it slows down the > process a bit, but in general this is not a big problem. It comes from the people who believe that having to go through a sponsor is not a problem, and that people can and should adopt half a dozen packages without needing to be a DD - an assertion that is rarely stated, but is the most obvious (to me) explanation for some of the statements made in this thread. Not necessarily made, however, by you. > > Anyone claiming it's not inconvenient should spend half a year or so doing > > it, then try to make the claim with a straight face. > > I did, and for longer than you. Let me clarify, then: are you claiming that it is not inconvenient, and that it is reasonable to expect someone to do everything a DD does, regularly, but through the sponsorship program? If so... an interesting datapoint. If not, what *are* you saying, and/or why is it relevant how long you waited (since the statement I made, above, was intended to directly tie 'inconvenience' to the duration of that inconvenience). -- Joel Baker <fenton@debian.org>
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