On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 10:01:43AM -0500, Mike Schacht wrote: > Thanks for the response. > > Right now there are 2 resources to work with: the web page you mention > > in your mail and d-mentors to request sponsors. > > On the other hand you might want to become a developer yourself and > > colaborate maintaining your packages for the common good. > In that case I am a bit confused. Maybe I am not using the vocabulary > correctly. I thought getting a sponsor was one part of the necessary > preparation required for applying to be a developer, which I am > interested in and willing to do. Do people have sponsors without > intending to become developers? What it the point of that? Should I > consider doing that while waiting to be approved as an official > developer? The NM process takes several months to complete, and there's a waiting list to even get into it. Being actively involved in the Debian development process is considered a prerequisite for applying to become a DD. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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