Hubert Chan wrote: > I think that if we add more developers, the amount of > work will increase faster. I am not sure that it scales that way. One must respect those who disagree, but them I ask a question: If Debian had ten thousand Developers, do you think that the Project could get any useful work done at all? The frustration of applicants now in stream is not hard to understand, but how are we to unfrustrate them? Shall we admit more new DDs faster? What do we observe to be the relationship between quantity and quality? If quantity is the enemy of quality, then what is the Project to do about this? Surely the NM process has real problems, but even if the process were perfected, what then? Debian does not want for Developers. So long as there are more applicants than the Project can absorb, then a long NM process is an uncomfortable but pretty effective filter. It took me three years of steady contribution to Debian development to make DD. If an applicant now in stream shows dedication and some talent, if he proves reasonably amiable, then chances are that he'll not wait so long. Old-time Developers hardly waited at all, but give them credit: they were the ones who built the Project into something worth joining. -- Thaddeus H. Black 508 Nellie's Cave Road Blacksburg, Virginia 24060, USA +1 540 961 0920, t@b-tk.org, thb@debian.org
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