On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:14:03 +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > Nowadays, we're asking people to become Maintainers so that they can > become Debian Maintainers and *then* apply to the New Maintainer's > process so that they can become Debian Developers. And when their DD account is created they get a mail with the subject "New Debian maintainer $name". :) (At least that's what I got 2+ years ago.) > Am I the only one who has trouble -and getting laughed at- whenever I > try to explain these to potential contributors? No. > Can we _at least_ rename the NM process to be indicative of what it is? It probably needs more; and it probably makes more fun and sense to combine it with changes in membership structures itself, in case someone picks up this discussion again. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ -- GPG key IDs: 0x8649AA06, 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: The Doors: Touch Me
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