Re: Suggestion: Time limit for NM process
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- Subject: Re: Suggestion: Time limit for NM process
- From: Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca>
- Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 11:30:23 -0600
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- In-reply-to: <1144037257.11282.37.camel@localhost.localdomain> (Joe Wreschnig's message of "Sun, 02 Apr 2006 23:07:37 -0500")
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On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 23:07:37 -0500, Joe Wreschnig <piman@sacredchao.net> said:
> Debian has an advantage because we don't pay people, but we do have
> other costs associated with membership: Account management, bandwidth
> and CPU resources, time for socialization and education. If 50% of the
> people applying for NM are getting through, and that's the only
> information we have, that's a really good ratio IMO. Do you really
> expect 100% of the people applying for NM to be prepared to be DDs?
Well, if everyone follows the NM process correctly, then everyone who
applies for NM should have already made a contribution to Debian --
significant enough that someone is willing to be their advocate. So I
would not be surprised if a larger-than-average number of applicants are
prepared to be DDs.
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