On Sat,25.Oct.08, 21:56:09, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >> If you are not voting or uploading packages, everythign else you > >> do can be done without a maintainers hat on, so you do not need to be > >> a DD. > > > > Does this mean you oppose to the concept of having non-packagers being > > members of the Debian Project? > > I do not think you are reading what I wrote. Actually I did, but it seems you didn't understand what I meant and since you were not alone I'll try to explain. > Secondly, What exactly to these members of the project do, if > they do not vote or upload packages? How are those activities any > different from what non-members do? I was talking about Debian Members as persons with a right to vote, but not necessarily packagers. Another alternative to automatic mail/voting as a way of checking if these people are still active would be to have a personalized MIA timer. For a packager the best way would be to reset the timer based on the last upload, but for a translator maybe his last mail with a translation should count. I hope I explained it better this time. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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