Re: Need addition to policy manual for new developers

[Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de>]

On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:

> Let's please make this policy change for new maintainers:
> 
> New maintainers must read the "Social Contract" before applying.
> They should state that they have done so in their message to
> new-maintainers@debian.org . They also should be expected to know
> where to find the "Debian Policy Manual" and the "Debian Packaging
> Manual".
> 
> Somehow, some people become maintainers without ever reading the social
> contract! I would not have thought it was possible :-)

I'll add this to the Developer's Reference.


Thanks,

Chris

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