Re: y'a quelque chose qui va pas chez Debian !
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Thierry Laronde wrote:
> Citation extraite du developers-references, chapitre new-maintainer :
>
> A phone number where we can call you. Remember that the new
> maintainer team usually calls during evening hours to save on long
> distance tolls. Please do not give a work number, unless you are
> generally there in the evening.
>
> La raison est « to save on long distance tolls ». Sachant que ce sont les
> responsables de new-maintainers qui appellent, jusqu'à preuve du contraire
> la facturation a lieu, suivant le pays appelé, mais en fonction du pays
> appelant.
ben oui, c'est des benevoles qui essayent de pas faire trop gonfler leur
facture de telephone... Ou est le probleme?
> Ceci à rapprocher de cela (message de mai 1999 --- en plus d'avoir un
> caractère de cochon, j'ai une mémoire d'éléphant ; une bête, j'vous dis) :
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> * To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> * Subject: How to become a maintainer
> * From: Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>
> * Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 17:27:34 +0900
>
> [..]
> But there remains BIG problem left.
>
> According to "developers-reference", you impose us as our
> real-life identity a PGP key signed by any well-known signature
> or alternatively to send copy of any formal documents certifying
> our identity (such as a birth certificate, national ID card,
> U.S. Driver's License, etc.), but in Japan there are no national
> ID card, especially if it is needed to be written in English.
>
> Also I have not met any Debian developer in real life and
> have not U.S. Driver's License yet.
>
> And I heared also that after sending e-mail to
> "new-maintainer@debian.org", the staff will make a telephone
> call to us, perhaps at deep midnight in Japan, and make conversation
> short on substance mainly because of our lack of ability in English.
>
> These situations of Debian are against internationalization and
> prevent foreign people, especially Japanese people, to be Debian
> developer.
> [..]
Effectivement, il est comme toi : il est pas encore developpeur mais deja
il hurle au scandale car on va *peut-etre* l'appeler a minuit et on va
(comble de l'horreur) lui demander de parler anglais...
--
"Si ca sent bon : mange-le, sinon pisse dessus..." [Proverbe chien]
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