On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 08:35:34PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org> [20001213 10:57]: > > with BTS problems: trivial, longstanding bugs, bugs that were fixed > > already but are still open in BTS, bug tagging, etc. > > > > What do we do with this cases? Remove them from the database? > > Put him on hold, tell him that he can fix bugs without being an > official Debian developer. That's what I told him in my reply. > Tell him he can still become a Debian > developer if he wants -- ask him to fix a couple of bugs over > a period of one or two months. If he fixes many bugs, I would > approve him in 2 months (ie. if you see that he _really_ does > work for Debian, then approve him. You can also check on > http://bugs.debian.org if he submitted bug reports before). The problem is he said he has no programming skills, so he would only do trivial tasks in the bts -- checking if a bug is still applicable, tagging bugs, etc. I don't think he needs to be a maintainer to do this as the BTS's control server is open to anyone. > Also, point him to the QA mailing list (debian-qa) and the web site > http://qa.debian.org (Also, the QA web site says that you can be > a "QA member" without being a Debian developer). Ah, this is interesting. I'll tell him about this. Jordi -- Jordi Mallach Pérez || jordi@pusa.informat.uv.es || Rediscovering Freedom, aka Oskuro in || jordi@sindominio.net || Using Debian GNU/Linux Reinos de Leyenda || jordi@debian.org || http://debian.org http://sindominio.net GnuPG public information: pub 1024D/917A225E telnet pusa.uv.es 23 73ED 4244 FD43 5886 20AC 2644 2584 94BA 917A 225E
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