On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 02:01:01PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 06 Jul 2010, Frans Pop wrote: > > On Tuesday 06 July 2010, Don Armstrong wrote: > > > On Tue, 06 Jul 2010, Frans Pop wrote: > > > > Is it actually OK for FD to "demand" that candidates go through DM > > > > before applying for DD, or as part of the NM process? > > > If the FD isn't fairly confident that someone has enough experience in > > > Debian to make occupying an AM's time and taking slotes and time away > > > from more qualified candidates, then yes, they should be strongly > > > suggesting that people aren't ready to become DDs, and thus should > > > spend more time working on Debian, possibly as DMs. > > Strongly suggesting (or advising) is different though than requiring or > > demanding. > The FD can say that someone isn't ready to enter the NM process, > though, and then provide specific suggestions as to how they can > demonstrate to the FD that they are ready to enter the NM process. That doesn't seem to be what's happened here, though. Admittedly we've only seen Manuel's paraphrasing of the conversation he had with FD (Manuel, please post actual mails, not paraphrasing!), but from there it appears that this was not being proposed as an example of how Manuel could demonstrate his involvement and committment to Debian, but rather as an enforced precondition for the NM process. I also find that troubling. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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