On Wednesday 09 June 2010 18:22:08 Lorenzo De Liso wrote: > Il giorno mer, 09/06/2010 alle 18.12 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ha > > scritto: > > I don't think you are going to get a lot of traction for any proposal > > that removes a DD from the upload process. > > > > So, lack of free DDs will always be a potential issue. I suggest you > > encourage people to become a DD. > > I know few DDs which are busy and sometimes they can't sponsor packages. > Become a DD would be great but without a previous work for debian I > don't think you can become a DD. Am I wrong? You need someone to sponsor you, and usually they look at past experience with the Debian development process. That doesn't mean you have to get your pet package into Debian, but it does mean you have to show competency with preparing uploads to the archive. Also, technical competency is only part of being a DD. It's much more important to be able to work well with the current DDs, process, and upstream to make Debian and the software packaged as part of it better. I strongly suggest anyone interested in Debian packaging start with the "wnpp- alert" program; existing packages and DDs need plenty of help with what is already there. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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