Re: Advocate/Sponsor
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:48:53AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Danie,
>
> On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Danie Roux wrote:
>
> > I would love to have an advocate. Being in Pretoria, South Africa that's not
> > going to be easy though.
>
> A developer does not have to be physically proximate to you to be your
> advocate; in fact, it doesn't have to be your advocate who signs your key,
> either. The advocate merely ... advocates for you to the NM committee, he is
> someone who will speak on your behalf in recommending you for maintainership.
> So in many cases, it may be better to seek a debian developer who knows your
> work and can evaluate your packages -- often your sponsor is best suited to
> be your advocate.
After I have a sponsor, and I've shown that I can be a developer/maintainer,
I'll apply. 'Till then I need to get my package into Debian :-)
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Danie Roux *shuffle* Adore Unix
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