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Re: The unofficial buildd effort and its shutdown - my POV



On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 01:14:04PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> Ingo Juergensmann <ij@2004.bluespice.org> writes:
> 
> > Every time I looked at the NM process it looked to me as a process about
> > package maintaining. Because this is not what I'm going to do, I turned
> > away. Quite simple. 
> 
> You did not look very carefully then, did you?  Please read:
> http://www.debian.org/devel/join/nm-step4.
> 
> You sort it out with the Application Manager.  Of course, "manage a
> buildd" isn't on the list, but that's because it's uncommon.  The page

No, but "* Infrastructure" is close enough, imho.

> goes out of its way to make clear that other tasks are fine if you
> work them out with the AM and the NM-committee.

Indeed.

[snip]

> Have you been fighting with James for several years to become a DD?
> Or are you just predicting that it's necessary?  James is pretty easy
> to get along with if you don't harass him, in my experience.

Agreed.  Of course, those who enter a discussion with the mindset that
"The person I'm going to discuss with is going to treat me like shit,
 so I better be aggressive or defensive" isn't really helping things...


Regards: David Weinehall
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