On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 10:50:23AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sat, 14 Oct 2006, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > How about requiring all new NM applicants to join an existing package > > maintenance team? > > Because we're volunteers, we can't require people to work in specific area > if that area is of no interest for them. > > Of course, given the large number of teams, I bet most NM could have an > interest in working in some teams... > > > Another possibility is to require new applicants to adopt packages which > > are O, RFA or join someone as a co-maintainer or become a co-maintainer > > for a package that has an RFH out there. > > Indeed, doing QA work is a good way to learn and I spontaneously did that > when I got my Debian account... but the solution to orphaned packages is > not forcing NM to adopt them. > > The set of software we're using today is not the same than the set of > software we used 10 years ago, so yes we must remove some orphaned > packages. In other cases, the software might still be in use and we should > try to find a solution if there's no DD willing to maintain it: here I'm > thinking of the "Debian Maintainer" idea thrown out by Anthony Towns (which > would let non-DD maintain a single package after a few runs of usual > sponsorship). > Good points. I was just offering suggestions, though. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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