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Re: AM status for Krystian Wlosek?



On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 02:57:52AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Piotr Roszatycki wrote:
> > I suppose that everyone are busy today, so do I. I'm a little tired
> > with sponsoring his packages and I know he could to upload his
> > packages by his own.
> > 
> > I really don't undestand why new developers are checked so precisely.
> > I think it is much harder to join Debian than i.e. Google or
> > Microsoft. It is ridiculous. I understand, the developers should have
> > a good knowledge of unix systems and our ogranization but... that's
> > going too far!
> 
> The reason why maintainers may be checked far more thoroughly is
> because the average employee of Google or Microsoft can't make changes
> to any piece of software company wide, nor do they vote on the
> direction of the entire company. [It's also far easier to fire someone
> than it is to remove a Developer.]
> 
> If you feel that the checks are unreasonable or to thorough, then feel
> free to make specific recommendations for places where they should be
> relaxed, ideally by helping with the NM process.
> 

There is also the DM (Debian maintainer) vote that indicates that DD
seem not to mind allowing certain folks to upload certain packages. But
this has not been implemented yet. If that were implemented, the OP
would have want he wanted, at least that is what I would expect.
=K
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