Re: Your opinion on Debian Maintainer status
Hi Gergely,
On 17-03-13 02:02, Gergely Nagy wrote:
> Arno Töll <arno@debian.org> writes:
>> In fact, even the wiki says "Becoming a Debian Developer: You should be
>> a Debian Maintainer for six months before applying to the Debian New
>> Member Process" [1]. That's somewhat different to the original idea of
>> the DM status and not really a direction we should endorse.
[...]
> Thank you, for reminding me of that. I haven't looked at that page since
> I re-applied, and almost forgot those words. We really should reconsider
> that paragraph, and preferably kill it with fire (post-wheezy, of
> course).
As someone who supports that policy (in the general case), can you
elaborate on this? Why do you think it is such a bad thing?
Note that, first, the NM frontdesk has always been willing to fast-track
someone who is "obviously" skilled (with "obviously" being vague on
purpose) and, second, that the DM step is not required for emeritus
developers returning to Debian.
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