Hi Rudi, On Tuesday 22 May 2007 18:06:21 Rudi Cilibrasi, Ph.D. wrote: > I have been studying Debian for several years on a course to eventually > become > a DD. I have been helped on this quest first by Paul van Tilburg on the > debian > ruby extras team, and later by Michael Koch as my first AM. Although both > of > these people and my other teammates and Debian friends have given me > valuable tips that I now use, it has become apparent that both are somewhat > over extended as we continue to experience rapid growth. It has > been about two months since I last heard anything from my AM. I am was observing your previous emails on the mailing lists you mention below and think you are doing everything right. It just takes long. I just checked, my advocate check is from 1/2004. Two months of silence are not much, just sent a reminder now and then and ... (most important) ... do not wait for anything but concentrate on what you earn your money with or love for other reasons and continue to package and/or otherwise contribute as much as your non-DD status allows. Two months is about what the version bump of one my last package took .... which is little when compared with the 4 month is was not updated because I was busy, too. And admit it: you are busy as well. Everyone is. > I would like > an acceptance or an idea of what skills (or other criteria) are lacking so > that > I can focus my studies efficiently and become a DD as soon as practicable: > but I need some feedback for this to work. Should I get a reassignment? > I don't want to waste too much of anyone's time. In the meantime I have > joined debian-med and debian-science in order to continue to get help > and advice and sponsorship for my packages. If you have read the debian policy document and its associates, then the best you can do is what you are actually doing: continue packaging as where your interest and daylife goes and get feedback from the two very friendly partially overlapping sub-communities you have chosen. The problem that as an ambitous DD aspirant I have ran into is that I have ended up with so many packages over the years that it became a real burden with the the sponsors. And it is not our style to impose work on others. The answer is group management of packages i.e. in Debian-Med. There may be new developers that happen to work on pieces at the very core of Debian who make the journey at a faster pace since they are so well known to the people at admnistrative posts. Though I have no data on how well the popularity-contest entries of maintained packages anti-correlate with pre-DD waiting time. For us at the periphery of Debian the rule can only be to relax and think with your heart of something else. Rest assured that the vast majority of your pals that to you see contributing to the application-oriented subcommunities are non-DDs. And those guys that press (or do not press) the button for your acceptance are just too busy and do not mean it any badly. The world should be different, admittedly. We have to wait for our acceptance to contribute to respective improvements, though. Cheers, Steffen (waiting for DAM approval ... hint ... hint...)
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