Re: NM Woes
> Unfortunately, it's not that uncommon, although that is a bit long.
At this rate, it'll take less time to develop stage four cancer, get
treatment, and recover, than it took to become a Debian Developer ;-)
I should submit that to the webpage folks so they can put that catchy
phrase on the NM page if I ever get in. *grin*
> Have you asked your application manager what the hold-up is? Usually there's
> some reason if it goes this long. Maybe the DAM asked him a question
> which he hasn't answered?
Asked several months back, it seemed the queue was just going slowly. I
sent him another query today. My AM is Falk, and he rocked in getting me
through the rest of the process. Luckily I'm at Georgia Tech so there were
some developers here to sign my GPG key, which sped matters considerably.
> That sucks. Well, you can still work on your packages. If you need a
> sponser, you can contact me. Since you've passed all but the DAM approval
> stage, I'd hope you wouldn't need this much longer.
The hospital does suck, but not so bad since I managed to convince the
hospital IT department to drop a 100bt line into my room, which they did
the *same day* I requested it. Admittedly I had to flaunt my gov't
clearance to prove to them I wasn't a threat to their network, but at
least the connect is decent when the nurses aren't chain-downloading from
napster. I haven't been able to touch my packages recently due to the lack
of a computer/connection, so I'm kinda dusting them off now to see how
badly in disarray they are, and which ones to concentrate on maintaining
and which ones to orphan since chemo tends to knock my conscious time down
a little.
Some of them are kinda redundant with packages in Debian already, such as
my maintenance of VFTP, a secure FTP server based off of OpenBSDFTP. I was
just wondering if that's cool, or if the redundancy is stupid...
~Warren
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