Re: About NM and Next Release
Chris Cheney <ccheney@cheney.cx> writes:
> 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.
How can that be with the DAM only accepting a few people every 6
month or so? Whats the average time for DDs accepted this year or
within the last 12 month?
MfG
Goswin
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