Re: When is DAM approval supposed to happen?
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 04:10:36PM +0200, Eray Ozkural wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 02:03:55PM -0000, Mariusz Przygodzki wrote:
> >
> > I am convinced the DAM approval is this kind of bureaucratical decision
> > which can not improve Debian work's quality of any maintaners (it means
> > unofficial maintaners in this case). Personally I have stopped to
> > investigate reasons of this situation and rules which are neccesary to
> > obtain the DAM approval since I can not treat this procedure seriously.
> >
>
> Does this mean I can never become a maintainer? I believe that I have
> demonstrated my knowledge of debian's policy and skills with the packages
> that I've done.
You must have heard many times by now that Debian is a volunteer effort, and
things are done on a time-available basis. There are often unexpected delays,
and there are rarely reasons given for them.
My NM application took over a year. During that time, I maintained my packages
through sponsors, participated in mailing list discussions, and tracked down
and fixed open bugs in packages that I was familiar with, and tried to be
generally useful. The only difference now is that I upload my own packages
(and thus my own fixes get into the archive more quickly) and maintain a small
archive of potato recompiles on people.d.o.
You don't need to be a maintainer in order to help Debian.
Being a maintainer is not a reward for helping Debian.
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- mdz
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