Alexander Wirt <formorer@debian.org> writes:
Yes you can do other things later, but its focussed on packaging and
maintaing packages.
Have you read the documents recently? Only one step of the NM process
is about that, step four, which itself explicitly goes into great
detail to describe four possible skills and tasks that would
demonstrate competence, and only one is package management. Moreover,
it describes the procedure for what to do when none of those four
applies. Please read http://www.debian.org/devel/join/nm-step4.