Re: Suggestion: Time limit for NM process
On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 04:17:33PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote:
> > I'm also considering withdrawal
>
> I have been told that when I was losing patience I should have
> communicated this fact to my AM and to the Front Desk. Allegedly if
> you threaten to drop out then things move faster. The squeaky wheel
> gets the grease. Let me know if it works.
I understand that some new maintainers on the NM queue become
discouraged, because they sit there on the NM queue for a long time,
while nothing visible is happening. But, I think that the NM queue is
not a problem for participating in the Debian project. In fact, I am
amazed by how quickly I became the maintainer of a few packages. Maybe
I'm just lucky. My request for sponsorship got picked up quite quickly,
and now my sponsor uploads my updates always within a few days.
I would not try to increase the speed of the NM queue with time limits.
The speed of the NM queue should be what the project needs. A faster NM
queue would attract many more new applicants. And I guess that the
number of DD's must not grow too fast either.
Bart Martens
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