Re: Suggestion: Time limit for NM process
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Am 02.04.2006 um 14:00 schrieb Thomas Hood:
I don't think that it's the same. I was active in packaging,
documentation and other stuff for quite a while before entering NM.
This didn't prepare me for the famous T&S questions about library
symbol
versioning, and so on. It didn't really make sense for my AM to be
waiting for me while I researched these matters.
Maybe, there should be a list of of things, people will have to learn
before entering the NM status on the pages somewhere?
What I am still wondering about: If one is already a package
maintainer and does not know essential things, how can he/she have
packages in the distribution?
And if we are talking about time limits. Shouldn't there be also a
minimum time for NM status? How can one reach the end within two days
as I have read some time ago?
Things to think about:
- - some NM only want to get the DD status as a status (like "I am a DD
and have a debian.org address")
- - some NM do not think much about the meaning of being a DD and the
responisbilities
- - some Applicants do not want to prepare themselves before entering
the NM stage
- - some find the process too difficult and instead of accepting that
they have not the clue to package, they want it easier
- - some complain about the amount of time (in hours, not the over all
time) it needs to learn and answer questions.
So we have different points of view:
- - Debian needs high quallity developers
- - Being a DD seems to be something more important than doing the work
actually
- - AMs sometimes have lack of time
- - The learning process is not well organized in some points
Fulfilling the needs of people, who find it important to be able to
call themselves a DD may be contrary a lot to the needs of the Debian
Project, but that would make less work for AMs.
So you cannot do it well for everyone.
In my point of view as a long time Debian user, the best is always to
keep in mind: What is the best for Debian Project and _not_ what is
the best for the applicants (or someone else personally). - But that
is difficult to reach as Debian is a collection of very individual
people.
greetings
Jutta
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http://www.witch.westfalen.de
http://witch.muensterland.org
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