Hi, On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 12:41:12AM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote: > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 09:01:39AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > > > Or IOW: since when are two well maintained packages too few to become a DD or > > DM? > > Adrian probably refers to: http://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2010/02/msg00058.html Yes, that was were I got my reasoning from. > Two well maintained packages are in principle ok for becoming DD, but > out of common sense I will have to ask how come if one maintains a > couple of packages and they are considered ready for unsupervised > uploads, they haven't been advocated for DM yet. I thought that Jan Dittberner is accepted as my official advocate. Is there any formal mistake that the explanation he has given is not regarded as an act of advocating? > Nothing that can't be solved by giving a good reason in the advocacy > message of why one thinks DM is not relevant. Keeping in mind that DM is > a very good way to acquire experience in Debian and afterwards literally > fly through NM, so it's generally a good idea to have people be DM for a > while before entering NM. > > Note that one can even be advocated for DD with no packages at all, as > long as the advocate provides a really really really sound reason for > it. Ok, I should explain my motivation a little bit more. I have been using Debian since 2002 when I started studying physics in Berlin where Debian is used for all Linux machines. Before that, I have been using SuSELinux since 1998 and later Knoppix before switching to Debian. In 2004, I got a student's job as Linux system administrator at the physics department I was studying at. I have been working there for around five years officially and still continue to help through remote administration on a voluntary basis. Through this job, I have access to a large installation base of around 150 Debian machines, ranging from small desktop machines to big servers. Over the years in this, I have gained a lot of experience with Debian and helped smashing many bugs in various packages. Eventually, I managed to upload my first two own packages through the sponsorship. I really like to invest a lot of time and passion into helping to improve Debian. And whenever I see a package in Debian which is not up-to-date or missing, I want to help in that situation. It especially bugs me that there a lot of RFPs/ITPs which never seem to be answered and I have an itch just answering and processing these requests. Without being able to upload packages myself, however, it is a very tedious and stressful task. I have, unfortunately, made the experience that some of my RFSs on Debian Mentors are never answered. So I sit there, having the packages ready and lintian-clean, and see them never get uploaded to be able to satisfy the ITPs/RFPs. So I think being a DD would allow me to work much more efficient when contributing in Debian. Naturally, I don't think that I have gained enough skills and experience yet to call myself a professional Debian developer, but I think I am on a good way to achieving that. Adrian
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