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Re: Fwd: Rejecting NM applicant Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>




Bartosz Feński aka fEnIo wrote:
> I've got patience. All I want to say is that all of this is quite
> incomprehensible for me. If developers thinks that process of becaming
> new developer is sick so why don't you change it?
> I want to be a developer very much so I don't care how long will my process
> be. But when even developers criticises that proccess then something
> should be changed. It's of course only my opinion.

Bartek, you said you have patience. You can, and you want to spend much time to become developer. And I think this is what we should expect from developers, besides of course good level of knowledge and practice. When one have no time to even complete NM process, how we could expect that he would have time to care about his packages? I believe, that Norman Walsh can take it up, but what if he have not enough time to do this?

As he said before: "Time passed. Eventually weeks passed. I started feeling guilty about clogging up the process and told Fabio it'd be September at least before I was able to free up enough time to try again."

I appreciate what Norman is making for community. He don't need to be dd to prove it to me, that he's making good work. It is his decision, if he would like to start NM again, or give it up. That don't mean of course that whole NM process is broken.

If the whole process is designed, so only people with enough skill and time could complete, then I think it is right. There are many folks with some free time and enough skills that want to be debian developers like Bartek. They would not fear NM restrictive process, so you don't have to worry about lack of new maintainers. Beeing debian maintainer is seen honourable. Don't throw it away making it simple and painless.


Regards,


Leonard Milcin Jr.


--
"Unix IS user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are."
                                                       -- Tollef Fog Heen



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