On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 06:05:14PM +0000, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > I have recently seen an increase in applicants who are unprepared or > don't even respond to my initial or follow-up messages. I have the > strong suspicion that this is related to the fact that it's really > easy to sign up for NM -- simply enter your name and e-mail address, > and there you go! You no longer have to think how serious you are > about it and what you want to do for Debian. Confirmed, I have a short list of applicants and 3 or 4 just didn't reply, realized they were really interested in joining, or just don't pay attention to the NM process. > My proposal is this: You can no longer apply to become a Debian > developer yourself, but instead you need an existing Debian developer > to recommend you. [snip] > What do you think of this? I would like to implement this sooner than > later, so please share your comments. I strongly support Martin's proposal. 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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