Re: About NM and next release
Nathanael Nerode wrote:
>Wrong. There have been specific technical things I wanted to do
>which simply cannot be done easily as an outsider.
In this sort of case, the answer is not necessarily to make the NM
process faster - it's to make it easier for outsiders to contribute to
the rest of Debian without opening us up to excessive ineptitude or
malice.
>Incidentally, the entire NM system seems geared toward package
>maintainers only, if you read the web pages. (That was not
>particularly encouraging.)
That's so massively a separate issue it's unbelievable, but yes -
making life easier for people who want to do translation and
documentation and stuff would be sensible.
(As an entirely pointless suggestion - how about making it easier for
people to get an @debian.org address and some sort of associated status
but not making it easier (or making it harder) for people to get the
ability to upload packages? That way the people who do just want to
claim to be a 1337 Debian contributor on their CV can do so without
consuming as much time, but we don't risk anything significant as a
result...)
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