On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 06:37:12PM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: > And the main question is is still open: Why do we need this DM status? > Which problem does it solve, if not the ones with our NM process? The NM process is about making new DDs -- who participate fully in the project, and understand and agree with its goals. Not every useful contributor to Debian actually wants that status -- Matthew Garrett's one example of a former DD who'd like to contribute to Debian without being a DD, and this is a way of making that more effective. Likewise there are plenty of people who'd like to make a small contribution to Debian without having to obtain the level of knowledge and experience we expect of DDs. I've AMed one person, Holger, so I'm not in a position to comment usefully on changing n-m, and that just doesn't factor into my goals. Marc, who made the -devel-announce post I linked to is a member of Front Desk, and seemed to think implementing something like this would be a good approach to improving n-m, but you'd have to ask him or others more involved in n-m than I am for opinions on how this might help or hurt n-m, or what other approraches there might be to improving n-m. > I think Anthony should have give those reasons directly in his proposal, > so that people like me who don't know what he's trying to solve don't > have to guess. I don't really find worry about other people's motives particularly useful, but fwiw, my main motivation is making it more efficient for all the non-DD maintainers in the project to continue participating as they are, and my secondary motivation is to provide an easy and low-impact way for people to "join" Debian in a meaningful sense. Going through n-m as it is isn't what I'd call "easy", and changing n-m isn't what I'd call "low-impact". YMMV of course. Cheers, aj
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