Re: About NM and Next Release
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Chris Cheney wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 01:41:45PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
> > On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Chris Cheney wrote:
> >
> > Not to toot my own horn, but I was accepted in under one week. I took 2 weeks
> > to read up on everything, then after I sent in my app, less than a week later
> > I was accepted.
> >
> > The shortness can probably be attributed to me actually doing work. This was
> > during the libc5->libc6 transition, and I was recompiling 3-4 packages each
> > day, and posting nightly summaries on -devel(this list). I wasn't hounding
> > DSA to accept me, I was just showing what work I was doing. Others on the
> > list, however, were clamouring for my acceptance.
> >
> > Of course, after I was accepted, I stopped doing 3-4 recompiles a day; I don't
> > know what that means.
> >
> > (I was accepted in January, 1998).
>
> Yep, this was before NM was closed indefinitely. From sometime around
> early 1999 until mid 2000 (June iirc) NM was closed, as far as I know
> no one at all was accepted into Debian during this time. IIRC Wichert
> finally got the ball rolling to start accepting new maintainers around
> April 2000. I don't know the current average time for a NM to get
> through the queue but I would guess at it being around 3-4 months.
My mail was not an attempt to compare pre-NM acceptance times to after. It
was to show that those who do work, get accepted.
Those who try to compare the acceptance times from my email are those that
shouldn't be in debian.
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